July 12, 2002

COLUMBUS, OH — Tom McCauley knows the drill by now.  So does Mike Watkeys.

It's the weekend of yet another opportunity and the questions are as predictable as the shin-deep rough and baked greens of a Carl Spackler Open.  Will McCauley live up to his Spackler Outfit and will Mike Watkeys keep the golf cart in one piece.  We shall see as they tee up on Saturday afternoon at Westchester Golf Club.

The answers tend to be, too, as McCauley and Watkeys try to rationalize for the umpteenth time why Don McFarland can't seem to score well since the 2002 Open Championship.  If either player can somehow add a good Saturday performance to their belt, it would be quite a day, indeed.

"It would be very special to break through and score this Saturday.  I've been trying to compete for many years," Watkeys said.   That won't stop Watkeys from attacking the course, even though he figures to do it with Southern Comfort instead of Tequilia, where he plans to ride in the golf cart as the passenger.

"Playing aggressive at Westchester means taking an aggressive swing, taking a rip at it," McCauley said. "If I hit driver, I might make a tentative swing, kind of a conservative swing because I feel like I have too much club and I might hit it too far."

"It is a round I very much want to win," McCauley said.