Quotes of the day from Muirfield
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What they said following their first taste of mighty Muirfield…
“I’m definitely under-thinking on the golf course, maybe over-thinking it off of it,” a despondent Rory McIlroy after his shocking 79.
“I didn’t feel like I was 56 years old out there – I felt like I was 32!” 1998 Open and Masters champion Mark O’Meara after turning back the clock and carding a cracking 67.
“Terrible. I try not to reflect on it. It’s been trying, I guess. There have been days when I didn’t want to play.” Todd Hamilton when asked to reflect on what had happened to him since winning at Royal Troon in 2004.
“I’ve tried to grow my hair a little bit, but it completely defies the laws of gravity. So I’m not going to let that happen again.” Spaniard Rafael Cabrera-Bello asked about joining fellow countryman Miguel Angel Jimenez in the ponytail stakes.
“I’m taking nothing out of that, it was just a load of rubbish. I felt like I was going to hit it left all day and I was fighting that. It was just a struggle.” Honest Aussie Jason Day after unhappily posting a 73.
