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SONY OPEN IN HAWAII


January 14, 2016


Luke Donald


Honolulu, Hawaii

Q. Five-under par today. Great start to the tournament. Get some comments.
LUKE DONALD: Yeah. Nice to start off like that. Obviously to start the year, this is a course I feel like is good for me. Didn't play very well last year, but it's nice to get off to a very solid start.

I played decently. I made a couple of long putts, which really helped with some momentum. But just kept it in front of me pretty much the whole way around, and it was just a good solid round to start the year off.

Q. Obviously you weren't here last week, but the discussion was all about Corrigan's piece about you and retirement.
LUKE DONALD: (Laughs).

Q. Or near retirement as it were.
LUKE DONALD: A little bit sensational, that headline. To put it in content, those are some fleeting thoughts seven or eight months ago. I was feeling a bit down about my game, and I think I was in Memphis in a hard place and my wife at the time was in Paris with Michael Jordan (laughs). I was just thinking, I need to be in a higher place in Memphis right now while she's in Paris. That was just kind of putting it in context.

I think everyone goes through rough periods. Not everyone talks about it. Obviously James talked to me about it a little bit at the end of Dubai, and I was honest with him. I could have just said nothing.

But yeah, I think you go through periods where -- you know, rough periods and you get down on yourself a little bit. And whether you can find some happiness on the golf course. And I had it the wrong way around. I was looking to try and play good golf that would make me happy instead of being happy and then the good golf would come. So I needed to switch that around mentally, and I think the last six months I've done a pretty good job of that.

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