Q. At what point did you think this week I'm going back to Kingsmill or I'm here at Kingsmill and this place has been very good to me? I mean, was there just a moment where you said this is my place?
DAVID DUVAL: In a sense I guess I thought that way, but it certainly helps that I came here, but had I been playing somewhere else this week following up the events of last week, I would have been quite enthused for the week and the possibilities of what was going to happen. You know, I'm looking -- I'm playing three events the rest of this year, maybe four, I don't know yet exactly, and the thinking I have is I can clean up this year with three wins pretty easy, that I can turn what's been a bad golf year into another multiple win season. That's how I feel about my golf right now.
Q. What's the status of all your various ailments?
DAVID DUVAL: I feel really good. My back is fine, it's been fine for quite some time. The shoulder that has been nagging me for six or seven months this year but it's fine. The wrist I hurt last year is fine, and my head is doing okay, too.
Q. Isn't that the most important one?
DAVID DUVAL: Uh-huh.
Q. Can you go back to follow up on what Rich just said, if it hadn't been Kingsmill do you think you would have played this week, looking at your schedule would this have been a week that you would have played if it hadn't been for Kingsmill?
DAVID DUVAL: You know, that's a hard question to answer simply because you haven't replaced it with another event. The answer would probably be yes, I would have played, and I would have taken the same approach.
Q. David, when you won at the British you've said that you didn't do everything right but you did enough right to win. Where do you feel mentally -- where could you put where you feel right now mentally in regards to where you were I guess maybe last year?
DAVID DUVAL: Well, I don't know if this will answer your question, but it's the best way I can try to do that. Out there playing last week at the Ryder Cup and today, I felt like me. Does that answer your question?
JOAN v.T. ALEXANDER: One or two more questions.
Q. You said it's been a long time since that, since you felt that way. Like how long?
DAVID DUVAL: Maybe November of last year. I really haven't played a whole lot of good golf since the World Cup last year. I won the tournament the week before in Japan and then played very mediocre at the World Cup, and had I played just good we would have won that golf tournament, I think. As it was we lost in the playoff, and then this year there's just been -- I don't know, I've gone through life a lot more like everybody does at times. I've had things going on elsewhere that are a distraction, and you can look at it as it's been quite a poor year golf-wise or you can choose to look at it as with everything that's going on I felt okay.
Q. When you say I felt like me, do you mean your confidence is back where you need it, you feel good?
DAVID DUVAL: It's a combination of confidence, patience, health, focus, my mental approach to think of how I'm playing and getting my way around the golf course, those kinds of things.
Q. Given that you got through everything as you said okay, does that help your mental approach now?
DAVID DUVAL: Well, yes, it does, but I feel like I'm trying to explain as best I can. I mean, there's not -- as a player out here, whether you're David Duval, Tiger Woods or somebody else, if you don't want to be out there competing, you're going to get beat up pretty good. Now, for me, my head has been in different places this year unfortunately simply because I've had other things going on that I've had to focus on and pay attention to and tend to, and, you know, there's been adjustments I've had to make and new lives and lifestyles to get used to, and that's all. I really feel uncomfortable sitting here talking about it simply because it's no different than something you may have gone through this year or last year. You know about it for me because I'm more of a public figure, but everybody in this room may have gone through the same things recently, I don't know, and that's why I don't want to talk about it. Simply you choose to look at things how you want, and I have not looked at it as I've done okay considering what a disaster, but I can take a step back and look at it and say I have done okay considering, and like I said, I have three rounds left this week, and the way I'm kind of thinking right now is I've got a good chance of being in the Tour Championship come next Sunday, and I'm way outside it right now, but that's how I feel.
Q. Considering your history here, if you walk out of here Sunday with a win, is it going to mean anything special to you?
DAVID DUVAL: I'm just curious to see if they'll let me come back and defend.
Q. How do you look in a skirt? You would be the only person to win three times, so I guess it's a good finishing point.
JOAN v.T. ALEXANDER: Thank you, David, for joining us.
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