Intro:

Reaction from defending champion Phil Mickelson, Thongchai Jaidee and David Hearn following their final rounds at the Open Championship on Sunday (July 20th).

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Phil Mickelson, Finished his Open Championship title defence on five-under-par:

"I played about as well as I could. I didn't score quite as well I could, but I played about as well as I could, and looking at the lead going into today's round, from the way I teed off on the Thursday, Friday, I was only a few shots off the lead, and I think that shows that I'm not, my game's not far off, but…. you need, to win the tournament you need to not only play great golf, but you need to have a few breaks, you need to have some luck and you need to have, a good deal with some other factors you can't control."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Phil Mickelson, Finished his Open Championship title defence on five-under-par (on whether any player will dominate golf in the coming years):

"You never can discount, we used to say there will never be another (Jack) Nicklaus and then along came Tiger (Woods). So you don't ever want to discount the possibility of someone coming along and dominating, but…. nobody has really asserted themselves week in and week out the way Tiger did for such a long period of time. I mean we'll have great, great performances, like Rory (McIlroy) this week, like (Martin) Kaymer at the US Open and so forth, but it's very hard to do that week in, week out, the way Tiger did. That's why it's so impressive, what he did."