MIKE SMALL: Well, I told people at home before I left, a major championship is its own animal. It's the surroundings, the atmosphere is so much different than any other Tour event, even the events I play in. I've seen it all. I've played the mini Tours, I've played high school golf, college golf, I've played on Tour, I've played major championships, I've played overseas and I've coached at the big amateur events.
There's something about a major that's so different. It gets me excited on Monday, and it tells me why I haven't made the cut in my three previous majors because I'm so wound up. So I'm trying to control that a little bit more this week. It's such an honor, something you always have, and I desperately want to make a cut in a major. I missed the cuts in the first three majors I played.
It's a whole different deal. The support you guys give the event is obviously the big thing, the media attention at these events, and obviously the great players in the world and the golf courses make the event, too. It's just a whole different deal, but it's fun. It's fun for myself, my family, everybody I know to be kind of involved in it.
JULIUS MASON: Mike hits it on Thursday at two o'clock with Ben Crane and Dudley Hart going off the 10th tee. Thanks for coming down, Mike.
MIKE SMALL: Thank you.
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