Anyone can do yardages and more or less pull a club. It is friendship I need more than anything else when things aren't going your way. You need someone you can count on.

I played the first two rounds of the U.S. Open with him, ... I said to him on the 18th green after the second round, 'Michael, if you play like that you'll win this thing!' The next two days, sure enough, he did.

But no golfer ever likes finishing second and I'll be doing everything I possibly can to go one better this time.

If I win the hole, to have gone from 3 down to 1 up in a few holes would have been massive psychologically. I might have won from there.

[The Dane was one up through 22 holes, but lost seven of the next eight holes - a run which included McGinley sinking an 85-yard pitch for an eagle 2 at the 29th.] I was the last man in and hopefully I'll be the last man standing, ... Maybe fate and destiny are on my side.

We are taking this very seriously. It is good to have a different perspective on the bag every now and again and he certainly brings that.