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Quotes of the Week

By GolfChannel.com Team

Editor's Note: In our Parting Shots feature, the GOLFCHANNEL.com team offers up the best quotes from the most recent week in golf.
 
"I have always said the Irish Open is like a fifth major for me, and to win it, well, I'm just ecstatic." -- Padraig Harrington, following his playoff win Sunday in Ireland.
 

"There is nothing like going back to where my professional career started, and playing against the best players in the world." -- Michelle Wie, after accepting an invitation to October's Samsung World Championship at Bighorn Golf Club where she made her professional debut.
 
"It's tough to accept. We're out here working our butts off to get a spot in that tournament and it's just handed to her." -- Brittany Lincicome, as told to The Star-Ledger, in response to Wie being giving the invitation to the Samsung.
 
"I resigned two months ago as the VP of sales for a commercial construction company to pursue other opportunities and to take some risks in life." -- Mark Ewing, who parlayed a $10,000 entry fee into $250,000 by winning the poker-style World Series of Golf.
 
"The life that I live at home doesn't stop just because there's a tournament in town. It just adds. Luckily my wife understands that and tries to take on as much as she possibly can, but she's only one person. I need to have like three or four wives maybe this week." -- Stewart Cink, a Duluth, Ga., resident on what it’s like playing a PGA TOUR event in his hometown.
 

"It was one of those days when I hit the ball straight it went right and when I tried to hit it right it went straight." -- Northern Irishman Damian Mooney, after posting an 92 in the opening round of the Irish Open.
 
"Whether this takes the form of a World Tour or something short of that requires further discussion, but there is no doubt in principle the concept of consolidation has merit." -- PGA Tour of Australasia chief executive Ben Sellenger, on Harrington's idea for the European Tour to merge with the Asian, Australasian, South African and Japanese Tour.
 
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