Q. Thomas Bjorn was asked earlier whether it would help him down the road having beaten Tiger head-to-head in Dubai. I'm curious, you played at Disney a couple of years ago. Is that something you can draw on down the road?
DUFFY WALDORF: Ideally that's the way we would like to play all the time. Where you're in a situation where you're going against top players, you're at the top and you're able to turn off all the distractions and turn on your game, and those experiences, whether you go against Tiger Woods or whoever, are very important. I mean, those are the kinds of experiences you want to draw on when you get in situations where you're in a big tournament and the course may be tough, but you need to pull out really great shots and you need to have that calm that you have there and also the expertise that you exhibit when you're right on top of your game like I was in Disney.
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DUFFY WALDORF: Obviously, I look at the board. I look more at the scores than the players, kind of what's a good score and if I'm doing okay.
For the most part, I don't like to do that too much, because you get in a situation where you might be doing well, but then you might not press harder and get more birdies if your game is on. In Disney I was six shots behind and I birdied the first six out of seven holes. That's a great round if I par in most of the time, but a lot of times you're better off -- I didn't really look at the leader board that day and I felt I had to keep going all the way. Here, this course is hard enough. Standing on the first tee, you're pretty much engaged with what you've got to do standing on the first tee and not worrying about what the other guys are doing.
Q. What's the finest remark anybody has ever said with regard to your shirt?
DUFFY WALDORF: To which part of me?
Q. To your shirts.
DUFFY WALDORF: Oh, well, there's no doubt the funniest thing is -- and these shirts I used to wear a shirt that was probably a little more colorful, that was vertically striped and someone, I think he was an Englishman, mention that had I looked like the pizza delivery man. It wasn't about this particular shirt, but it was a shirt that I wore probably five years ago. So I've really toned down my shirts. I used to take a lot of heat for them, now I just wear the Hawaiian look.
Q. How about today, anybody say anything?
DUFFY WALDORF: No, I was playing with a sweater. I'm quite plain with a sweater. No, I looked normal out there.
Q. Why? Why do you like this kind of statement?
DUFFY WALDORF: Because when I'm home, I wear Hawaiian shirts most of the time. When I go out, I either wear T-shirts or Hawaiian shirts. That's my life style. In two weeks I'll be in Hawaii wearing T-shirts and Hawaiian shirts.
Q. Do you plan in advance what you're wearing tomorrow?
DUFFY WALDORF: I've got three clean shirts left, let's keep it that way, so it will be one of those three.
Q. What's the message written on the ball today?
DUFFY WALDORF: All the balls were from last week from Milwaukee, so there was a lot of references to Cops Custer, which is my favorite food staple in the U.S. in Milwaukee, and I think the last ball was something they say in Wisconsin, Yardahey. I'm not sure why they say that. I'll have to call my wife.
Q. How do you spell that?
DUFFY WALDORF: Y-A-R-D-A-H-E-Y. It's one of their greetings. I think there are a lot of Norwegians in Milwaukee, so they have a lot of those terms they stick in their dialect.
Q. Did you withdraw in Milwaukee?
DUFFY WALDORF: I did. The second round. After my first round, my back was hurting and my game was hurting and so I figured I could take a day off and get over here a little sooner, because it wasn't -- I wasn't 100 percent and I would rather be 100 percent for here than play the second round. I was going to miss the cut anyway, so I felt it was a good time to take a little rest.
Q. British Amateur -- (inaudible)?
DUFFY WALDORF: You must have been about 15.
Q. Is that your first experience at links golf?
DUFFY WALDORF: Yes, that was my first experience. I think it was the first time I had come over here. It was a good experience. They had a lot of different weather there. The best thing about that trip was getting here early in the week for the qualifying rounds. They were having a heat wave and everyone was going crazy. Their shirts were off and they were going in the ocean. And the people at the bed and breakfast were having to stay in. They were an older couple, and it was just so hot, it was like 78 degrees. These people had to stay inside, and I was like, Are you kidding? The ice machine was broken in that whole area. I couldn't find a cube of ice to save my life.
Q. And the golf?
DUFFY WALDORF: The golf was a good too. I qualified. I played into the quarterfinals and lost to the eventual champion, Garth McGinty. I think we were probably two of the better players left in the draw. We met in round eight. I struggled there that last time. I remember how different the course could play with the weather. It was warm and then it got by that round, by that round of eight, it was cold. I was hitting Persimmon woods, I can't imagine hitting a Persimmon wood when it gets cold around here anymore.
Q. Could you explain? Was it custard?
DUFFY WALDORF: Yes.
Q. What is it?
DUFFY WALDORF: It's kind of like -- have you ever had Haagen Daz ice cream? If you go to the store and get regular ice cream, Haagen Daz is creamy and rich. Custard is the next level. It's like the Haagen Daz of Haagen Daz. It's the next level. It has eggs in it and it's creamy and smooth and tastes like a million bucks, and it only costs a buck/50. The way they do it there, they have a different flavor every day, so the flavors are quite good. Key lime pie was on my ball today and I had some balls with some of the other flavors, there was three chocolate flavors, and there was.
Q. Crushed squirral?
DUFFY WALDORF: No, this stuff is good.
Q. Did you bring any over to eat?
DUFFY WALDORF: No, it melts ultra quick. It would melt out here. It's probably perfect for here because it would last a while.
Q. You're so casual about talking about your career, but did you ever think about or gear up for a major championship before?
DUFFY WALDORF: No, I was just happy to get in them really. I gear up to get in them. I couldn't gear up for this one, I got in with a good finish at the Western Open, and at this pint in my career, this isn't the easiest thing to qualify for, I gave the U.S. Open a shot and didn't make it. That's a lot easier qualifying than this one, it's still stuff. I look at majors, they are just a great benefit for me to play. I think for the most part, they favor my game, the way I play. They're all set up -- for the most part you have to hit the ball in the fairway, and I'm reasonably good at doing that.
Q. Would you have ever come over and qualified and tried to qualify?
DUFFY WALDORF: Not this year.
Q. You're familiar with Tom Lehman. Have you been tapping into his natural and expertise to help you?
DUFFY WALDORF: Fortunately we haven't had to play links golf yet. It was more American golf out there today.
Yeah, I haven't gotten to see him that much this year, but we have -- in other years we played the British Open, we've gone to Loch Lomond together, and just hanging out with Tom Lehman is good, he's good for your soul.
Q. You were close at Western, right, in terms of getting in here. Did you barely make it with your 65 on the last day?
DUFFY WALDORF: I had a good 66 the third day and then the last day I was kind of in the lead there for just a brief moment and then I finished -- I made some bogeys, I finished fifth so I actually made it by two or three shots.
Q. Did you go into the Western thinking -- with this on your mind?
DUFFY WALDORF: No, I had no chance if I did that, no chance at all. Just like at Disney if I'm thinking I'm 6 shots behind, I have no way to make it up. I had been off three weeks before the Western, so sometimes expectations are good not to have.
Q. In your wine cellar, what wine do you specialize in?
DUFFY WALDORF: It always is changing. I've got no Scottish wine. I used to really like French wine and I still have quite a bit. Right now I have a lot of California wine obviously, and lately I've been focused on Italian reds and Australian whites are my two favorite kinds. Rieslings and Pinot Blancs and the Pinot Gris and Gris Vitlaner from
Austria. Italy, I like the Barolos and the Brunellos, and Barbarescos.
Q. How many do you have?
DUFFY WALDORF: About 2,000.
Q. (Inaudible)
DUFFY WALDORF: That's like you're supposed to fantasize about good rounds. I fantasize about how long my wine will last. 2000 should last a long time even with a lot of friends.
Q. What's the most expensive?
DUFFY WALDORF: The most expensive I ever bought or most expensive in my collection? Because what happens is, you buy these wines and some of the older French ones have really gone up in value. Probably my most expensive, my dad gave me a bottle of '75 Le Mission Haut Brion, and that's a pretty valuable bottle, probably 400, 500 dollars a bottle, unless you get it at the Greywalls and then it's an 800 dollar bottle (laughter). They don't have it there either, I looked. They have a '76, though, which was reasonably priced.
Q. Are you staying there?
DUFFY WALDORF: No, but Davis Love, he invited me to dinner a few nights, so I ate there earlier in the week with him, we had a little Claret.
Q. Who paid for the wine?
DUFFY WALDORF: So far Davis has but he's supposed to send me a bill. I picked it out. Usually if you pick it out, you have to pay for it, so I should be getting a bill.
Q. Is that ability not to evaluate yourself in a tournament, is that something that you speaks to who you are or is that a point you reach in life when you realize how things are?
DUFFY WALDORF: It's a point you probably should reach in life. I think people get there at a different time. I had to turn around about 12 years ago or I would have been heading in another direction. In other words, I wouldn't have been probably playing golf anymore. You have to be able to separate things and evaluate your game in a safe place and not have it affect your life, not have it be you who is a bad person because you play bad. That's something Tiger has been doing. How old is he now? He's 26. He's probably been doing that for 24 years, maybe even longer. And some of us take a lot longer to get there. It's important to look at yourself, I think in a lighthearted way and realize where golf sits in your life and where everything else sits in your life. It's a matter of when you get there.
STEWART McDOUGAL: Duffy, thank you very much.
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