Isn’t it funny? There is hardly any golf coverage on german television during the year and suddenly there is a tournament in germany and you cannot escape it. More of that during the rest of the year, please. Anyway, it will give me a good preparation before I go there on Sunday myself.

Wednesday, 26. Juli 2006
20.15 Pro Sieben, Die Legende von Bagger Vance
21.00 Eurosport, US PGA Tour, B.C. Open in Endicott, NY (USA)Friday, 28. July 2006

Friday, 27. July 2006
00.35 n-tv, Deutsche Bank Players Championship
22.00 DSF, Deutsche Bank Players Championship

Saturday, 29. July 2006
00.35 n-tv, Deutsche Bank Players Championship
12.00 NDR Fernsehen, Deutsche Bank Players Championship
18.30 n-tv, Abschlag – Golf bei n-tv
22.00 DSF, Deutsche Bank Players Championship

Sunday, 30. July 2006
00.35 n-tv, Deutsche Bank Players Championship
07.00 NDR Fernsehen, Deutsche Bank Players Championship
18.30 n-tv, Abschlag – Golf bei n-tv
19.30 n-tv, Deutsche Bank Players Championship
22.00 DSF, Deutsche Bank Players Championship

Monday, 31. July 2006
00.35 n-tv, Deutsche Bank Players Championship

STEWART McDOUGALL: Ladies and gentlemen, Tiger Woods, 2006 Open champion (applause).

Tiger, you’ve defended your championship very successfully. How do you feel at this stage? How do you feel now?

TIGER WOODS: Wow, I don’t know where to begin. I just excited, worn out, just so many different emotions to describe right now because I guess it all came out on 18.

But overall it was such a if you’re looking at it just from a golf standpoint, it was such a difficult week, with the fairways and greens being as hard and fast, and Chris playing just beautiful golf today. He just kept putting the pressure on me in the group behind. I just had to continue to try to be patient, make birdies whenever I could, but just whatever I do, just don’t drop a shot and give him any momentum.

And it didn’t quite work out that way. I bogeyed 14 and I believe I bogeyed 12 and he birdied 13. So two shot swing right there. I guess it just then I got hot there at 14, 15, 16, which was nice to give myself a little bit of a cushion playing 17 and 18, because obviously anything can happen on 18. I was able to play it basically stress free.

Q. Can you talk about the emotion on 18, with Stevie there? Did that surprise you that you let it out, let loose like that?

TIGER WOODS: Yeah, I’ve never done that. You know me. So it’s just I guess all the things that we’ve gone through of late and I guess I’m kind of the one who bottles things up a little bit and moves on, tries to deal with things in my own way.

But at that moment it just came pouring out and of all the things that my father has meant to me and the game of golf, and I just wish he could have seen it one more time. I was pretty bummed out after not winning The Masters, because I knew that was the last major he was ever going to see. So that one was that one hurt a little bit. And finally to get this one, and it’s just unfortunate that he wasn’t here to see it.

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