I played a practice round with him at Baltusrol in the '93 Open on my 21st birthday,

I've actually seen twice during the same round, two different guys hit the ball backwards ... and it didn't hit anything. They topped it so bad that it actually went backwards.

I played one of the days with Sam Jackson, George Lopez and Cheech Marin. I had a ball. Sam is over there contemplating the game of golf and what it means, all this other stuff. And Cheech and George are trying to figure out who has had the best one-liner so far. That just cracks me up.

Is this where I put my birthday info in?

My dad was pretty into model airplanes, and then someone got him a remote-controlled car for his birthday. It's a pretty big pastime where I come from.

The car was a lot more stable in qualifying than it was in practice ... I feel like we've got room to improve and I don't have quite as much of a death grip on the wheel, so we'll take it from there in tonight's practice. Hopefully we can make the car a bit quicker. Last year we struggled in qualifying, but had a very good race car, so we were able to work our way through the pack. This year we're starting a little further up the grid so I think we can challenge early in the race and hopefully end up with a good result.