Quotes
"It's amazing and I don't want to consider what it would have felt like if I had lost but I played solid and my putter was warm in places - except yesterday." - Retief Goosen
"It's been a long week, it feels like a year out here." - Retief Goosen
"When I got up this morning, I was more comfortable than I was Sunday morning. I knew I had a 50 percent chance of winning." - Retief Goosen
"I got punished severely in the rough today and that was kind of the difference," - Mark Brooks after his playoff loss.
"I started hitting the ball a lot better a few weeks ago, and just the putter wasn't working. And putting a new putter in the bag last week, it just helped." - Retief Goosen
"To be honest with you I played as hard as I could, I tried on every shot, and there's no regrets." - Tiger Woods after failing to win his fifth straight major championship
"I don't think people really understand how difficult it is on you to keep putting yourself there and the stress it puts on you coming down the back nine on Sunday with a chance to win. More times than not it wears you out." - Tiger Woods
"It's certainly not the finish I would have liked, but out of playing (36) majors now, and not winning any, I'm tired of beating myself up time after time," - Phil Mickelson.
"It was really tough to dig in and concentrate on that second putt because I really didn't think it was really all that important," - Stewart Cink after missing a two-foot putt to join Goosen and Brooks in the playoff.
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