Everybody was saying they're gonna go with what they have. That was the word we were getting. But I wasn't worried about it. If it's my time to go, it's my time to go. I have my kids and would love to see them play.

We don't get into supporting one part of the state as opposed to another, but we are saying that before you get out the fly swatter, try to look at this as a new way we can work toward progress.

You hear people saying starter will give you a yield benefit no matter how high your fertility. The question I kept coming back to was, 'How much of a bang am I really getting for my buck?' I absolutely hate to spend money when I don't need to.

There has been an incredible increase in the number of retailers who are throwing up their hands and saying, 'That's it, we are going to require prepay until we can figure out another way,'

We feel like we've earned our way into a summer date. We've been saying to the Tour since we got the tournament in the first place we wanted to move it to the summer. We took a tournament that was nomadic and close to nonexistence and turned it into a quality, first-class event.

It's a momentum shift. I'm not saying I did anything great - I mean, it's just what we do - but it changed things. I think it maybe got some guys fired up.