Jesper Parnevik Quotations

One swing, and everything clicked, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win on the West Coast.

I was praying for the wind to be here today, which I actually thought was my only chance.

I guess it's better to be seven behind one guy than 15 guys like you usually are when you're seven behind. He has to do something bad, let's just put it that way.

If we don't get any rain on the weekend, this course is going to be brutal on Sunday,

I felt like I was playing fairly well at the beginning of the year but nothing happened. I couldn't hole any putts so I was finishing 35th every week.

If I putted like I have this week, I would have easily won last week.

If I was guaranteed a spot on the team, it would be different. But as it is I'd have to play three months straight in Europe to maybe get a captain's pick.

Golf got very boring. We brought back colors and better cuts and now everybody does it. I even saw Tiger wore a pink shirt when he won in San Diego. Then I thought my mission was accomplished.

He could be the next Casanova superstar on tour. The girls love him. He's fresh, has a lot of charisma, and he's fun.

I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit.

I think they charged me about $20,000 for it. The kids sort of thought it was fun, because there were animals in the barn and so on.

I said the heck with it, I'm going to surrender. And I gave in. The game got me. I was trying so hard, but didn't win. I gave up pretty much -- not gave up, but I decided I was going to take a break and see what happens.

Some guys hate it, some guys like it.

It all depends on the weather. If you get weather like we had on the second round there, then it's a really tough course. Now we are back to nice desert weather again. If you play well, you can shoot pretty low scores.

You know you've been playing badly when you forget where the media areas are at all these tournaments,

You can mess up on this course if you're not careful. If you hit your shots in the wrong places, you're going to have pretty wicked putts.

I spent seven or eight hours on the range (Wednesday) and at the end, I found something that worked for me. You have to be able to hit the driver straight or forget about it. Today I felt great with the driver.

I shot 65 in the first round. When you're not playing well, you're almost afraid of going to the first tee. Even if you shoot 65, you know tomorrow it could be any score. Now I have the confidence back that I'm going to play well every day.

Some drives today actually went forever. I couldn't believe it. I hit a drive on No. 9 that went all of 400 yards, I'll bet.

That's how weird this game is. You can go from pretty much having no clue and searching really hard to where I just made two swings, and it's like I've got it.

That one swing everything clicked. It was amazing.

There were a lot of frowns when I stepped onto the range. Johan went overboard in the beginning with very tight stuff. He wanted to make a statement. At the time, guys really wanted to know what was going on.

Then I started swinging around the hip injury and started hooking the ball 30, 40, 50 yards. I remember playing in Vancouver. I almost won the tournament playing a 50-yard hook. I knew that was it, that I had to have surgery.

Then, when you notice you can actually play pretty bad golf, then it's tougher to come back to that level where you feel confident over every shot, every week.

Everybody wants to start the year on a good note, because it usually carries through the rest of the year.

It was amazing to have a chance to win today. This pretty much says it all about golf. I was 4-under with three holes to go in the third round and thinking about where I'm going to spend the weekend. I was putting so bad. Then I made three birdies to finish on Friday. I missed a short birdie putt on No. 1 (Saturday) and then shoot 10-under after that.

Any time you shoot under par on the South Course, you're very happy. They made that course into a monster, especially with the rough they have.

I never felt like a pioneer. I didn't think it would come this far, where you see everybody going in that direction. I didn't think it would be this fast. But it's fun.

I'm playing 100 times better than at the last Ryder Cup, but playing 11 extra tournaments in Europe would be tough,

I'm very happy with four-under, ... I mean yesterday after the Pro-Am or the practice rounds, I would have taken even par in a heartbeat and not even gone out today. This is probably the toughest course we've played all year. You have to hit it in the fairway.

I had a great year going in 2000,

Chili-dipping is very easy, put it that way.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this week,

If he keeps playing like he is playing there is not much we can do about it. He is playing great and he seems to love this golf course,

I don't think anyone else is going to chip in twice in one round. Period.