Q. The putting today --?
ED DOUGHERTY: It was like I told you, I had my birdie putts and I had to be defensive on them. I thought I hit a great shot on 11, and I looked at this putt and said, "If I hit this thing anymore solid I have a 12-footer coming back." Luckily, I made the putt on 17, the 2-putt, and I was trying to bounce the ball, I didn't think I could get it there any other way. Fourth place isn't bad.
You know, I didn't know what first prize was, I didn't know what 10th prize was. I never look. It would have been great. But fourth is not bad, either.
Q. Talk about what you were going through, to keep your focus like that?
ED DOUGHERTY: We just signed my mother up for hospice.
Q. (Inaudible.)
ED DOUGHERTY: Yeah, I started -- I hit a shot, I had such a horrible lie, a big clump of grass to the right of the ball and I knew I couldn't get around it. I couldn't come down on the ball. I knew if I hit it, it was going to stop the club, which it did and I shanked it up. Then, I had a horrible shot. So, I took my poison and went on with it. I thought I had a good putt on 3. Thought I hit a good putt on 2, 2 and 3. Great up-and-down on 4 and then I birdied 5. And I hit a great putt on 6, and birdied 7. I think I'm doing great. But then --.
Q. You were happy with the way you struck the ball?
ED DOUGHERTY: Yeah, I was very happy.
Q. (Inaudible.)
ED DOUGHERTY: I don't think I missed a whole lot of greens. I don't know what I hit. But I made 6 birdies and 6 bogeys this week. And if I made 7 bogeys, five of them were 3-putts. A bogey on 5 the first day, I hit it over the green, didn't get it up-and-down. And then on one today. I thought -- and I did learn a lot from Des Moines a couple of years ago, I hung in there pretty good today.
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