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Masters title win has finally sunk in

Whenever someone does something really great in the sport for the first time - that Whether the Stanley Cup and French Open - everybody wants to know how he feels.

Most often the person who has not said yet sunk in, or something like that. After winning the Masters, I understand why.

Things happen so fast and the intensity of the moment is so large, it is difficult to remember your name, let alone describe what it's like having your dream, or what it means to you.

Well, it's almost two months from that special day at Augusta, and I think it finally sunk in that I am a Masters champion. Hearing that on the first tee starting Thursday at the U.S. Open will be a thrill.

Winning has not changed me but it changed things. From the perspective of golf I can feel the difference I am preparing to play in my first major championship as a great champion.

The other years I would come to the U.S. Open, play my practice rounds, talking to journalists in Canada and Utah and perhaps some others, and otherwise going about my business.

This year I'm on the cover Golf Magazine, I have a press conference today and there are usually just demands more of my time. It's a good problem to have, but I'm glad to have him as a 33-years with 10 years as a professional under my belt. If this had happened when I was younger it would have been more difficult to handle.

But the biggest difference is not so much how the public perceives me and my game Golf is the way I perceive myself.

The big question professional golfers face is how they will stand up under pressure. We can all hit the ball far, the wedge close and putt well, otherwise we would not be here.

What is important for me is not only that I won the Masters, but how I won the Masters. The holes in recent years, the only person who could touch me win tournaments, it was me, and I had no margin for error. Winning in the most extreme pressure gives me a feeling of confidence that I do not think anyone can take it away.

It is unclear how this will affect me this week at Olympia Fields.

Currently I have a feeling almost no pressure. I do not feel the warmth of my own expectations of people or another because it has already been an extraordinary year. Hopefully this means I can just go out and play freely.

This probably feels like Tiger. He accomplished so much that it is probably just there and play competition for its own purposes and not to worry about what anyone else thinks Therefore, it plays even better.

Hope it's the same for me. I noticed the other week at the Memorial. I did not really play well the first three days, but I never frustrated as I possibly other years.

I was patient with myself much more. I knew that things would come together, it was just a matter of time. That's exactly what happened Sunday, and I made a lot of birdies and finished in third place. In other years I might have pressed too and finished 20th.

I do not think complacency will be a problem. I've never been a guy enter a tournament just to get my 20 events, it is simply not in my nature. If I'm playing, I'll win.

In other years, three wins, one of them a large, perhaps enough to win player of the year but already Tiger and Davis (Love III) have won three times, and Ernie (Els), Vijay (Singh) and Kenny Perry have won twice, so there are lots of guys who have a shot at player of the year.

Hey, winning the Grand Slam (all four majors scan in a year) would probably shut him up. Can I do that? It's a long shot, but I never say never.

Besides, I'm never satisfied. I never think that I be. Just the other week I was working with my coach, Mike Wilson, tweaking a few things, trying to get everything right.

The Masters was as good as I've never been mentally and obviously with my putting and short game, but it was nowhere near my potential for cue ball. I still do not think I ever had everything gelling at once for a tournament, so it's something to aim for.

I could be a great champion, but for me the most exciting thing is that there is much room for improvement

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