I thought John Chillas was the man of the match from our side. There wasn't one person that didn't say to me, even the players, "I've never heard of John Chillas, but he can compete." Never mind the public. He comes over here, wins these first two games and he ties the best player we've had on the Senior Tour, Hale Irwin. That's really a tremendous effort.
And a lot of the -- not sufficient recognition is being given to the players outside of the United States. Arnold Palmer has always been preaching this, and so has a host of players, but really they have got -- I think they have done very well. I was very proud of what they did today.
Q. What would you say to a Vijay Singh or a Nick Price, when you tell them could get them to come here?
GARY PLAYER: First of all, I don't know whether it's my job to go -- we live in a world today of big money. It's not like with when Arnold, Jack and I played. We traveled around the world, we would go to Australia for $15,000. I mean, Arnold Palmer is going to Australia to be president of the Australian Open for its 100th anniversary; and I would have gone, but I have to play in the Nelson Mandela event this coming week starting tomorrow.
It's hard to go to people that are inundated with all of these large sums of money. I am delighted to see there's so much money. I really am not envious of the fact at all, because I didn't play golf for money; I wanted to be a champion. But I hope golf is not going to be hurt by the large sums of money, and the players won't forget they have a responsibility to uphold as well as playing for the big money.
It's not easy, on the other hand. They all have itineraries to go around the world and they have all of these different offers and things. But maybe I'm being just a little selfish and say I wish they would come along and play in this event because this has been a very special event.
I'm not being critical. I want to make sure that I'm not being critical at all. I'm not being critical at all. I'm just hoping that they would come along and play.
Q. Are you feeling at all snakebit both in this event and against Arnold as a captain at this point?
GARY PLAYER: No. I look at it in a very positive way. Give me an example what you're referring to.
Q. Just that you're 0-3-1 in the tournament so far.
GARY PLAYER: I look at it in a very positive way. When you think of what we've got to draw with and what the United States have got to draw with, I think we've done very, very well. This match could have very easily changed. We played the wrong ball on No. 9 yesterday, which was a massive turning point. Mark McNulty, 3-up with three to go, you know, the odds are he'll win. The odds are yesterday that we would have won.
So, you know, it could very easily have gone even a little closer, and I think it's encouraging to see that. And last year, they tied. So, it's encouraging.
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