Quotes by Andrew Magee

“I cant explain it. I didnt play at all last year. I really didnt know if I was going to be able to come back and play at all out here. To start like this is pretty exciting. I dont know if my game got better or everybody else got worse.”

“I thought I might have to be a car-pool guy or a TV announcer or something last year,”

“I had totally anticipated being ready to play last January because my doctor had said three months, blah-blah-blah. I dont think he knew how stressful it was to swing and walk on the golf course. My foot never healed. Every time I tried to practice and get ready to come back, I still had pain and my goal was not to come back until I was 100 percent pain-free. By the time this year started, I still wasnt 100 percent. In Hawaii, I could still feel it. I still feel it now but I can swing without pain. I think walking the last month has been the final healing process. Right now, it finally feels good.”

“You have to really drive your ball straight here. Nobody who hits it off the fairway is going to play well this week. You have to hit it straight, you have to hit it below the hole. The greens are fast and its just a classic golf course. Its a very fair course, but its just tough.”

“This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round,”

“Its just got long holes, short holes, views, trees, dogleg rights, dogleg lefts, its got a real versatile mix of holes. Its just a beautiful place.”

“Im very fortunate that we caught this early and very thankful for the tremendous care Ive gotten.”

“Most of the time, you hear about friends who go through a situation like that and they have a couple years left to live. This is a happy story.”

“Its all so scary, because you think about your kids. You dont think about all the things you didnt do yet. Im very lucky. They caught it very early.”

“Then I remembered I was back on tour, and it was time to screw up. The old habits just dont seem to go away after the surgery. I was hoping all the old negativity might go away, but its still there.”