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Central: Score one for scrambling Rory (1:40)
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Steve Sands interviews co-leader Rory McIlroy after his play Thursday at Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.
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-Thanks for stopping by at Golfchannel.com. White Watson and Charlie
Rymer. The Sony Open in Hawaii, the first full-field event
of 2012, and one of the early leaders coming out
of a morning way. One of the better scores of
the day, Graham DeLaet with a 63, young man from
Canada. Had a major medical last year and really didn't
get a chance to play a whole lot of golf,
Charlie. Gotta go back to 2010 to find some meaningful
starts on the-- but that's a meaningful start right there.
A 63 on day one and just 27 putts. -Yeah.
This was a heck of a round for Graham but
really a dream start of the 2012 season. 2010 was
his rookie year, finished a hundred on the money list
only 2 starts on the PGA Tour in 2011, has
the back injury. He's been out for so long but
he has to have some question in his mind. "Is
my back okay? Can I still go out and play
this game?" I mean, those sort of thoughts of the
tense he'd creeping in when you're playing the PGA Tour,
especially when you're just starting a career. So for him
to go out and put up a round like this,
I think it's very very meaningful for Graham DeLaet. -A
lot of other players though, looming large in that rearview
mirror. As he went out, he knows that guys like
K.J. Choi are out there. Webb Simpson is out there,
Steve Stricker who won last week in Hawaii is still
out there. When you've had that much time off, due
to injury, what does it take mentally to get back
to tournament level in terms of your focus? -Well, it's
a cliche but I can tell you that you literally
can't think about any of that and he's got 26
tournaments this season and make a little over $650,000 to
keep his card and have his job next season. He
can't think about that, I mean, he just gotta go
on one whole, one round, one week at a time.
I see a smile. You journalist don't believe that and
you think, oh yeah you're not saying anything but I'm
telling you folks, you gotta keep it as simple as
you possibly can-- -[unk], get one shot and it's-- -yeah
it's boring and it's boring when players talk about it
but that's how they have to think about it. Literally
stay in the present with all the math, sort of
calm down of its own. But he knows he's got
the 26 terms which is a full season and he
goes out and plays the kind of golf that he's
capable of playing. The numbers are gonna take care of
themselves. -Good start for the young man from Canada. For
continuing coverage, keep it right here at Golfchannel.com with Charlie
Rymer, I'm Whit Watson. Thanks for stopping by.
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