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Willett looks ahead to the 145th Open Championship

Wednesday, July 13 2016 by SNTV
  • 2016 Masters Champion Danny Willett looked ahead to the 145th Open Championship at Royal Troon Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland, on Tuesday (12th July).

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Danny Willett, 2016 Masters winner:

    (On going to Wimbledon and Silverstone ahead of coming to Royal Troon)

    "Yeah, last week, yeah. Fortunately the schedule allowed us to go down. Usually we miss it because of French Open or Scottish Open, and depends on which one you're playing because we had last week off, yeah. Fortunately that opened up a couple of opportunities to go other athletes at the top of their sports."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Danny Willett, 2016 Masters winner:

    (On trying to get his form back after enjoying himself since the Masters)

    "Go back and have a pretty brutally honest conversation with yourself with what you've been doing. Are you working out enough? Have you been putting enough time in? Have you been dedicating yourself properly and going back through? We've had a couple moments in the last month or so where we're trying to get back on track now with getting back up and working as hard and for longer hours than what we have done in previous months, previous years. But, again, it's a juggling act trying to juggle everything in and around."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Danny Willett, 2016 Masters winner:

    (On trying to get his form back)

    "If you've got a good enough team around you that can pat you on the back when you're doing well and give you a little kick in the rear when you're not actually working hard enough but you might think you're working hard enough, that's what you need. You need the brutal honesty of good people around you."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Danny Willett, 2016 Masters winner:

    (On Zika and the Olympics)

    "I'm not sure, Zika has been round since the 1970s. Only recently has it been published, this, that and the other. Probably because you have 11,000 of the best athletes in the world heading there. You've got more chance of getting malaria in South Africa than you have in getting Zika when you go to Rio. It depends if there's Olympic games down in Johannesburg, would guys pull out because of malaria? I don't really know, you know? It's not really there. So, yeah, it could be a non-starter. But if there's a risk there, they have to let you know. Then people look into it, they get their own people to look into it, and they go down different avenues of making their decisions. So, yeah, hopefully when we get down there, it's a non-starter and the threat isn't credible."

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