An Interview with: WEBB SIMPSON

MARK STEVENS:  Okay.  Webb Simpson, great final round, bogey-free round to win the Wyndham Championship, your first on Tour.

Moves you to 3rd in the FedExCup standings going into The Playoffs.  Kind of talk a little bit about your emotions right now getting your first win and we’ll take a few questions.

WEBB SIMPSON:  Yeah.  I’m super-excited.  You know, I was obviously in the last group yesterday, felt a good amount of pressure and I think it showed starting out but I just stayed patient.

I was really happy the way I finished yesterday and leading into today I felt…

An Interview with: WILLIAM MCGIRT

Q.        William, long day on the golf course and then almost even longer day off the golf course.  Congratulations.

WILLIAM MCGIRT:  I appreciate it.  Seemed like this afternoon took longer than all four rounds to play.  Just been a nerve-racking afternoon.

Q.  Tell me about what it’s been like after you play, talked to us after you played and just how hard it was on the golf course.  How hard was it off the golf course?

WILLIAM MCGIRT:  It was very hard because I had no control over it.  You know, you sit here and I kept checking my phone,…

An Interview with: ERNIE ELS

Q.  Ernie, Padraig said earlier today, “I don’t do anything the easy way.”  Kind of echo those thoughts?

ERNIE ELS:  Yeah.  Yeah.  After bogeying the first hole, that really set me back.  Then you just — you don’t want to mess up too badly.  It’s a terrible way to feel on the golf course because you know you want to try and contend but you also don’t want to screw up.  It’s a terrible feeling to play.  It’s almost like going back to Q-School.

Q.  You felt like you were kind of playing defense instead of being able to attack?…

An Interview with: JUSTIN LEONARD

Q.        Eagle at 5 and the nice birdie at 15.  Kept telling you where were you all today, didn’t it?

JUSTIN LEONARD:  Yeah.  I didn’t pay too much attention.  I kind of figured I had to make, make another birdie in the last three holes and, you know, had good looks at it 16, 17, I hit two good putts.

But, you know, to try and wait until this week to make it through is just — you know, I mean, come on.  I had 25 other weeks to play like this.

Q.  And yet again, you almost got it…

An Interview with: GEORGE MCNEILL

Q.   Talk about today, first of all.  Did you have a number in mind and did you get there?

GEORGE MCNEILL:  Honestly, I thought it was going to be a lot lower.  It still could be.  Obviously not everybody is finished yet so — I was just trying to play as well as I could.  I can only control myself.  I can’t control what everybody else does.  Very happy with the way I hit it, the way I played, the way I putted.  Everything was nice today.

Yesterday I struggled a little bit with my ball striking but today I…

An Interview with: CAMILO VILLEGAS

Q.  Camilo, never the easy way.  You come in at 125.  You do make the cut.  Today you start with a bogey.  Even that last 5-footer was a little knee-knocker, but you got it done.  Congratulations.

CAMILO VILLEGAS:  Yeah.  Moving on to the first playoff event, I’m excited.  I have a little bittersweet taste right now since I hit a lot of shots close today and I missed — I think I missed maybe a 6-footer on 8, a 6-footer on 9, then where else did I miss?  On 13 I missed another 6-footer and 15 I missed a 3-footer.…

An Interview with: VIJAY SINGH

Q.  Vijay, you’re going to be close to the Top 30 in the FedExCup heading in The Playoffs.  You’re going to some courses where you won before.  Maybe some comments about the upcoming four weeks.

Kind of playing well right now.  Good time to peak, right?

VIJAY SINGH:  Yeah.  I mean I’m not hurting anymore which is very good.  Once the pain is gone I can play pain-free, I think I can play the way I want to play.  I’m not trying to guide my swing.  It’s a good time to feel that way and good time to be playing…

An interview with: WEBB SIMPSON

MARK STEVENS:  Webb, great stretch.  Closing out to get to 6-under for the day.  You want to talk about the ending and kind of the day in general and then we’ll take some questions.

WEBB SIMPSON:  Yeah, it was tough start again, kind of been common for me this week or even lately but, like I said all week, you got to really stay patient around this golf course because, you know, bogies are pretty quick to happen out here with the rough and with the undulating greens if you short-side yourself.

Again, I told myself to be patient and…

An Interview with: TOMMY GAINEY

Q.  Grinding it out around there.  Talk about the day a little bit.

TOMMY GAINEY:  Yeah.  I guess one word sums it up, “frustrating”.  I hit it terrible to start with.  That little delay we had, I think kind of helped me out a little bit.

I got the driver straightened out coming back out.  Started hitting it better, starting hitting some fairways.  And then I started hitting just a couple of bad shots here and there and, you know, when you hit a bad shot on 15 over there, on that par 5 and you make par, I mean…

An interview with: PAUL CASEY

Q.   Talk about your finish, coming in with two birdies.

PAUL CASEY:  Yeah.  Should have been three.  I needed to — was a little bit of a frustrating day out there.  Judging by the leaderboard everybody had a frustrating day, I thought, except for Carl Pettersson.

So, you know, it was a round that had everything.  I made mistakes, I had good moments but it was a really nice way to finish with the two birdies on 17 and 18.  It gets me back in this.

Q.  There’s also the other thing going with the FedExCup and the fact that…