Steve Morton Quotations

We started the week with the dedication of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic Medical Building in our honor on the campus of the Eisenhower Medical Center, and we are thrilled to be ending the week with the announcement of a continuation of our 42-year relationship with Chrysler during which we have raised nearly $42 million for charity in our community. We look forward to an exciting future with our title sponsor, Chrysler, which is and continues to be the longest running sponsor-tournament relationship on the PGA TOUR.

One of the things we wanted to do from Day One was to make this place fan-friendly, and not just for the people in the sky boxes but for everybody to be able to see a lot of golf.

If the gun is knocked out of your hand, it would be disarmed. If the gun were stolen from you, if your little one tried to pick it up, the gun would not fire.

He expressed to us that if he was feeling up to it, he wouldn't miss it.

We look forward to an exciting future with our title sponsor.

We learned even with this magnificent building that's going up, that will be open in September, we think we will build those satellite clubhouses again and make them available for everybody. Because they are great viewing areas, they are a place to hang out, we had food service. That was kind of an eye-opener. That told us what we should do going forward.

The tour views the possibilities of promoting the event on a year-round basis rather than just a week or 10 days. As far as our structure, that is not an issue at all. The fact that we are going to such a fabulous golf course, that's a big deal to them and a bigger deal to us.

Once the shootings occurred in Jonesboro and people asked if there is hope for the future, is there hope tragedies like this can be avoided, we stood up to be counted and said yes, there is hope.

You sweep your finger over the sensor. ... A flood of images goes from the fingerprint sensor into our chip. A fingerprint sensor in one of our tiny image processor chips is built into the handle of a gun. ... You grab the gun, you sweep the finger over the sensor and, in less than a heartbeat, if you are authorized to fire the gun, you can. Otherwise you can't.

It's a learning curve for the field staff and the PGA Tour, too. We were surprised at the difficulty of some of the pin placements during the week for the pro-am competition, and I think the tour staff knows to re-think that.

It's kind of like NASCAR. I don't know if you've been to Fontana for the California 500. There is more than an auto race going on. We are going to create the same thing here, and we have the room to do it and the facilities to do it, and that's our goal.

It's been a good week for us, a good run. Chrysler sees some opportunities with the new setup that they are pretty darned excited about.

(Sunday) they bumped it up nine or 10 yards, which is a lot for them. With that extra yardage, plus a little extra wind, it was playing down wind, everyone was going for it. Somewhere in between is what we want.

Sunday pins are one thing, but some of these were extreme, and I think (the tour staff) realizes that. It's new for everybody. I think you will see, significantly different pin placement for next year, particularly for the pro-am competition.

I really think the clubhouse goes beyond normal. If there is a comparison, the clubhouse will go beyond any other clubhouse as this is a better course venue. There is going to be a banquet room there for 300, 400 people. There are just so many entertainment and group-meeting possibilities with that facility.