DAVE SENKO: Tiger, congratulations on your third win in the event. Maybe just get us started, talk about your day, and then we'll get some questions.

TIGER WOODS: Well, starting out the day I was one back with Chris, and I knew that given the conditions as soft as they were today and really no wind out there, I knew I had to make some birdies out there. I figured those two guys would maybe make some birdies back there. I guess I knew if I had 5 or 6 under par by the end of the day I'd have a pretty good chance of winning the golf tournament, and I was fortunate enough to shoot 66 today.

DAVE SENKO: I hope it isn't too early to flip the calendar, but you're halfway to another Grand Slam. What are your thoughts about that and is that realistic?

TIGER WOODS: Well, you've got to keep plugging along and make sure you peak at the right times. Obviously Augusta is obviously a long way away but still in the back of all of our minds, and the whole idea is to play well leading up to the tournament and hopefully have your game just peak at the right time that particular week. Hopefully I'll do the same thing at Oakmont.

DAVE SENKO: How important was it to finish the year with a win, and does something like this carry over into the next couple of events next year?

TIGER WOODS: Yeah, it was a real nice positive because the last two 72 hole stroke play events I finished second, and I didn't want to have it a third straight time. Even though I got the Grand Slam, it was only two days. But to play four rounds against a quality field like this and come out on top, it always gives you a shot of confidence going into next year.

DAVE SENKO: Can you talk about when you have I believe you go up by two shots after Ogilvy and DiMarco finish three holes. Do you sort of thrive off that knowing that you've built that lead so early, and does it feel like
 
TIGER WOODS: Before you even go on, I didn't know I had a lead until we got to the 9th hole because there's no leaderboards on the front nine. So when I got to 9, I looked at it, and I had at the time a two shot lead, and if I made the putt on 9 I knew I had have a three shot lead. I told (caddy) Stevie (Williams), let's get a three shot lead going into this back nine, and I made the putt.

DAVE SENKO: You saw it at the turn because there's no boards, just one on 4?

TIGER WOODS: Well, I only saw that one on 9, otherwise I didn't see any leaderboards on the front nine. I guess you're right, there is one on 4 but I didn't see it. I had just made bogey so I wasn't real happy. My head was down.

DAVE SENKO: You opened with a win in your first tournament of the year and closed it with a win in the last tournament, and obviously you talked about what a traumatic year this was. Can you just sort of review it quickly? Start with first and end at first.

TIGER WOODS: Well, the bookends, it's always nice to get Ws for bookends. But the middle part for me, my year golf wise was pretty good this year. Overall I'm very pleased with the progress I've made working with Hank, and things started solidifying this summer.

I mean, it was nice to actually put a lot of the pieces together and just go out there and play. Obviously to win as many tournaments as I did from summer until now was an awful lot of fun.

DAVE SENKO: When you come in here every day and have kind of a laundry list of things you weren't happy with, whether it was speed of putts or iron play, yet you win by four strokes, you kind of win going away, what does that say about the state of your game and where you are in relation to the rest of the guys on Tour?

TIGER WOODS: Well, I was just being honest. You asked me how did I do out there, and I was just being honest. I just told you the things that I thought I needed to clean up in order to win the golf tournament, and today I did that. Today I hit the ball a lot better and I made some putts.

But prior to that it was one or the other. I drove it great, hit my irons not so good and putted not so good. I mean, it was just one of the three was working.

I put most of the pieces together today, and it was fun to go out there and obviously make birdies early and put a lot of the heat on the guys behind me.

DAVE SENKO: Drawing comparisons between this and 2000, not based on mechanics but purely results, where would you see the biggest difference? Would you just see it as one extra major or margin of victory, things like that?

TIGER WOODS: I think if you compare the two years, I think this year would have to be better because of obviously things I've been dealing with off the golf course. 2000 I didn't have to deal with that.

DAVE SENKO: If you had a peaceful year, do you ever think about what might have been?

TIGER WOODS: Yeah, I mean, I won my first two events of the year. I got off to a quick start of the year. Hey, life is full of mysteries and you've got to deal with things as they come. Who's to know that if Dad didn't struggle and end up passing that I wouldn't have played that well in the summer; who knows.

DAVE SENKO: Mechanically, do you understand what you’re doing when you’re making changes?

TIGER WOODS: Understanding of mechanics now and things are starting to solidify. This summer was huge for that. Basically we went back to Hank and I went back to what I was working on at the beginning of the year after I took the break at the Western after that first round where I did not play well. I said, “You know what, let's forget everything that's happened. Let's work on what we did at the beginning of the year that won the first two events and let's get everything organized,” and we did that in one afternoon, and all of a sudden it turned around, and boom.

DAVE SENKO: Was it at the Western that you turned around your season?

TIGER WOODS: Without a doubt, there's no comparison. No other practice session was more important than that one. I had played three consecutive poor rounds, three in the U.S. Open and one at the Western.

DAVE SENKO: How much can we expect you to play this coming season? Can we expect to see you in the Mercedes? Can we expect to see you in all those events that are playoff events and leading up to it?

TIGER WOODS: Jerry, I'm going to play every event next year (laughter). I'm not taking any weeks off (laughter).

You know me, I'm going to sit back here in the next week and start playing out my entire schedule for next year. I wanted to get this tournament over and done with and get on vacation and enjoy skiing, having a great time, and then I'll get the entire itinerary for next year and start planning the schedule, what I need to do and when I need to do it.

DAVE SENKO: You described the 16th hole. How important was that? And can you describe your second and third shots?

TIGER WOODS: What hole?

DAVE SENKO: 16.

TIGER WOODS: Yeah, 16. It was not a very good 5 wood second shot. I kind of lost it I was trying to hit just a little smoothie up there and I hit just a nice little cut and I over cut it and ended up embedded on the bank, took the two drops and got a decent lie but the stance was terrible, but it was good enough the lie was good enough where I felt comfortable I could get the ball over the bunker and keep it on the green. I was just trying to build some kind of stance where I could basically make contact, and I was able to do that and then make the putt. It was nice to do that because the guys were back out in the fairway watching.

That could have easily that ball goes in the hazard, I could have easily made bogey there just like I did yesterday.

DAVE SENKO: You called a rules official over?

TIGER WOODS: Yeah, it was about an inch closer. Just wanted to make sure to clarify.

DAVE SENKO: I didn't hear the ceremonies. I assume just as in the previous two wins, you donated the money to the Foundation?

TIGER WOODS: Uh huh.

DAVE SENKO: Obviously you want to win the tournament, you were talking about your competitive nature. But I assume being able to win and give the money is almost as gratifying, if not more so?

TIGER WOODS: You know it's going to help kids, and that's the beauty of it, is that this entire tournament, all the people that came out and supported it and all of you guys who came out and are basically covering this event enhance what we're trying to do to help kids. The learning center is one small steppingstone toward what we're trying to do in building the overall Foundation, trying to grow it globally.
This was a step in the right direction for that.

DAVE SENKO: We all know how much you like racking up all the Ws, how much you like being in contention on the last day. But so much rides on this week for the Foundation and because you're the tournament host, does it feel different for you being out there in the zone?

TIGER WOODS: Once you're on the golf course, you're out there playing. That's the beauty of it. Obviously I've got a lot of responsibilities off the golf course this entire week, but once you get inside the ropes, it's time to mix it up with another 15 boys out there, see what we've got. That to me is fun, and especially today when you've got the U.S. Open champion there and you've got Chris DiMarco who's played so well the last few years, and you knew it was going to be a battle. That gets your juices running.

DAVE SENKO: Talking about next year, do juices start to flow when you think about the new points structure and how that's going to change the mindset out there?

TIGER WOODS: Well, first of all, I need to understand the points structure. I don't. I don't know it yet. I don't know what each tournament is worth, if a major is worth more or less or the same, I don't know. I really don't know. We'll see what happens.
Once I figure it out, then I'll let you know. It's like the World Ranking system, isn't it? Or QB passer rating.

DAVE SENKO: Do you like the concept of it? Not the fact that it ends earlier, but do you like the concept of it?

TIGER WOODS: It's interesting, it really is. It's so different that we've never experienced anything like this before. It's weird in the sense that the points system determines the Top 30 but the Money List determines whether you keep your card or not. I don't know, it'll be very interesting to see the two dynamics there.

DAVE SENKO: Just throw touchdowns and not interceptions.

TIGER WOODS: That's it. Just dump it off to the running back and let him do all the work. Perfect.

DAVE SENKO: As you look back on this golf year, is there one shot more than any other which stands out as the most satisfying? And is there one shot that if you could take it back and have a second crack at it, you would?

TIGER WOODS: How about all 36 holes at the U.S. Open. They were pretty dreadful. What did I finish, 50 over par or something? It wasn't very good there.

As far as I wish I could have putted better at The Masters this year. I didn't putt well the entire week and especially didn't putt well on Sunday. I was struggling with speed the entire week, and then on Sunday it just became even worse. I hit the ball great the entire week. I put myself in position to make a bunch of putts, and I didn't do it at all.

DAVE SENKO: And if there was one shot you had to pick that was your most satisfying of the season?

TIGER WOODS: Most satisfying? Well, that's a great question. I know there was a series of shots, but they weren't in competition. It was a practice session I had at the Western when I hit balls about three hours out there. I had about an hour where I really hit it that was fun. I really hit it good. I had every shape shot, height, spin, whatever you wanted, I had it for about an hour. That's what you're always looking for. Then I just built upon that for the rest of the year.

DAVE SENKO: In terms of your will to win, you've described yourself as having a football player's mentality. Can you elaborate on that a little bit?

TIGER WOODS: Well, I don't think you really lay up on par 5s on the football field, do you? You'd get run over. Obviously you've got to bring everything you've got or else you get hurt.

In our sport it's different. Some of the guys don't bring it every day, and I just don't understand that. It's not that hard to concentrate for five hours. Like I said, you've got 19 other hours to recover, which is fine.

That's why I bring it each and every day. It's not that hard to focus for five hours, step up and bring everything you've got, and that's the way I've always played. I can't play any other way because I can't deal with the fact that if I go home at night and look at myself in the mirror that I didn't try as hard as I could have. I just couldn't live with that.

DAVE SENKO: What did it mean to you to have some of the kids that you've helped at the learning center now come out today?

TIGER WOODS: They were all out there, I could see them out there and recognized most of the faces out there and I could hear them hooting and hollering, which was fun. That's what it's all about. Some of these kids were going down the wrong path and now these kids have turned it around and now they're going off to college, which is something they never thought about doing before.
It's nice to make a positive impact like that on someone's life, and hopefully we can do it on a much grander scale than just here in Southern California.

DAVE SENKO: In the looking ahead category, Ernie (Els) won the South African Open today. He vanished most of the year except for the Open. What did you see out of him this year, and what are your expectations of him going forward concerning the past couple years he's had?

TIGER WOODS: Well, Ernie just basically struggles with his knee, getting confidence to go ahead and swing aggressively onto it. Hey, when I came back after my knee surgery in 2002, I just dealt with the pain and just played through it. But there is some you have to suck it up sometimes and say this is really going to hurt and hit a shot. His knee surgery was a lot more extensive than mine. He had to deal with a lot more scar tissue and things than I ever had to deal with. So for him to try and battle through all that and as well as get his game back because he took so much time off, it's not easy to do.

There are repercussions that you don't really realize until you have to hit a shot from awkward lies, and it's like, well, this is where it really grabs me. I've got to hit it anyways. Sometimes it's not too bad, then other times it kills you, then other times it's not too bad. It takes a little bit of time.

DAVE SENKO: Just going back to your previous answer about hopefully the scale of the learning center will be much bigger in Southern California, could you say where you hope it will be in say five years' time?

TIGER WOODS: Well, in five years' time hopefully we'll have at least another one built and our Start Something program will already be overseas and we'll be expanding that way.

DAVE SENKO: Just going back to your answer before that about concentrating for five hours, do you think one of the reasons why other players can't is that they play too much? Some of them played 31, 32 events this year.

TIGER WOODS: I don't know, I've never done it before.

DAVE SENKO: Thank you, Tiger.

DAVE SENKO: Geoff, thanks for joining us. You finished 12 under, 71 today. Maybe just take us back through your day real quick and then we'll get some questions.

GEOFF OGILVY: Yeah, well, first hole I played nice, just missed the putt. Second hole a few times today I had mud on my ball the second shot. I really had to go for the green. Because I had mud on it I didn't want to aim for the pin, I aimed to the middle of the green and it squirted to the right, and I shouldn't have made a bogey but I three putted from a long way because it bounced into a bad spot.

After that it was just kind of scratchy. I wasn't hitting it as good as I did yesterday. I hit a couple of awful shots, especially the one on the ninth, which was close to a shank.

On the back nine I played okay. I had my chances. I had a bad three putt on what was it, 14? I thought I'd have a chance at 14, especially with 16 coming up. And then I got a mud ball on 16 and ended up getting away with it.

All in all I didn't play as well as I did yesterday, but not too bad. I would have had to have a pretty good score. I knew starting the day I would have to shoot 5 or 6 under to win. Maybe that's why you never play well when he's there because you try too hard to shoot a score. Golf is very hard when you're trying to shoot a low score.

DAVE SENKO: You said yesterday if you beat Tiger, you're going to be in good shape, or if you're even close to him, and of course you beat everybody but Tiger.

GEOFF OGILVY: Yeah, well, I mean, that's financially, I guess, a success, but still not a victory. It would be nice. I'm sure if I play well, I'll have lots of opportunities to try to beat Tiger in the next ten years. Every opportunity you get is enjoyable. I mean, it wasn't enjoyable while I was doing it. I wished I had played better, but that's all right. Second is definitely better than third, but I would have liked to get closer.

DAVE SENKO: The mud ball that early in the round and then suddenly you're two and three adrift, is it pretty hard in your head to try and make up that kind of ground?

GEOFF OGILVY: Well, no. I mean, I still thought I had a chance on the 14th to be honest with you. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't no, honestly on the 14th hole I still thought I had a chance. If I had made that putt instead of three putting it, I'm one behind. It was a tricky putt out of the shadow and it was really far, but it doesn't put you in a great frame of mind, especially bogeying a par 5.

It was a pretty smelly way to start. All week I've been under par after two holes and today I was over par, and that was tough. That's just the way it goes.

Again, maybe it was just trying too hard or something on the first few holes to get off to a good start.

DAVE SENKO: Were you two back when you played 14? Did you see a board?

GEOFF OGILVY: I was 12. I was figuring that he was 14 or 15 at that point. I was at 12. I thought 15 wouldn't be a bad number. What did he end up, 16? So what are you going to do?

When I had a putt to go to 13 under, which at the time I thought was one behind him, I thought I had a chance to still win the tournament. But when you're three even on 15, I thought if I can birdie 15, eagle 16, you never know.

DAVE SENKO: Did you three putt 14?

GEOFF OGILVY: Yeah.

DAVE SENKO: Can you talk about the front nine, and early on you have that one leaderboard I think at No. 4 and that's pretty much it on the front nine until 9. Did you have a pretty good idea where you were at because of the loud noises? Did you feel like he probably birdied a couple? Is it hard to know exactly where he is without them?

GEOFF OGILVY: I saw him hole a putt on the second which you could tell was for birdie, and then on the third he made something or other. He made a I don't know what he made there. He made birdie on he made a long putt anyway because they all went crazy. I figured he was 2 under after three.

It's pretty easy to tell what the guys in the group in front of you are having. You kind of lose them a little bit. You can't watch on a few of the holes because they disappear, but most of the time you can see them putting on the green when they get there, and you can tell by the reaction if it's a bogey putt or a birdie putt. We had a reasonable feeling that he was 2 or 3 under for the round for most of the day. He ended up having, what, 6 under?

DAVE SENKO: You said you had your break when the baby was born, but is it hard to imagine in 17 days you'll be teeing off at the Mercedes?

GEOFF OGILVY: It is hard to imagine because it still feels like the 2006 season, which I guess it fundamentally is today. Yeah, in two weeks we're going on less than two weeks I'll be in Maui and then on. 17 days. It comes up quick. We don't have to play, you know (laughter). We choose to.

As I said yesterday, Hawaii is a pretty nice spot to go. It's a pretty good way to start the year. I'll probably have a couple of weeks off after Hawaii. Maybe I'll have a little break before and after it. Hawaii is almost a break anyway. It's not, but it's a pretty relaxing place to go.

DAVE SENKO: There is this growing expectation in certain quarters that Tiger should or will win all four majors in 2007. Do you think that's an unfair expectation?

GEOFF OGILVY: He always seems to play well under expectation. I think Tiger should win all four majors in a year. It was only ten years ago people were thinking it was absolutely far fetched to win two, now you've got him winning four. Augusta obviously sets up well. He's a great scrambler. Carnoustie, he did all right last time at Carnoustie in that fiasco. He's the best player in the world and he's going to have a chance every week he tees it up. But a lot of the right things have to happen for him to win four.

When he did it, when he won all four, was it 2000? 2000 and 2001, wasn't it? He was playing some pretty decent golf. I don't think he's actually playing as good as he was then now.

I don't know. Let's see if he wins The Masters then see if he can win the U.S. Open. I don't know.

DAVE SENKO: You went in a pretty quick span today from being one stroke up to a couple down. How much if at all does that change your mindset in terms of what you were trying to get done? Tiger said yesterday he felt like he had to make a bunch of birdies. Did you take that same mindset going into today?

GEOFF OGILVY: You figure he's going to play well because he doesn't have many bad Sundays, and Chris (DiMarco) is a great player and you knew he was going to have a few birdies.

Look, obviously, the ideal is to get off to a good start and I didn't, and it's always hard when you do that, when you don't. In my mind I knew I was going to have to shoot 5 or 6 under today to win. In hindsight I would have had 5 under for a playoff. I knew I had to, it's just harder to do that, especially when you're not in your best frame of mind after bogeying a par 5 on the second hole. It's a frustrating way to start, really.