31.   Duval put it all together, with four birdies on the back nine to roll in, unexpectedly in the lead.

32.   Doyle has just returned with his wife, Kate, from Charlotte, N.C., where Bruce Fleisher beat him on the back nine for his third victory.

33.   Duval caught fire on the back nine Friday, making birdies on four of the last six holes.

34.   Els kept missing putts on the back nine that he needed to make.

35.   Even a modest face-saving on the back nine would include a double bogey.

36.   Fact is, he had it until Greg Norman, the Australian-American, turned the back nine into his personal toy.

37.   For some reason I was getting a little tired on the back nine.

38.   Good gracious, this was the back nine on Sunday.

39.   He fought back from a mini-collapse on the middle of the back nine and did what he had to do.

40.   He finished with a double-bogey six but birdied the next hole and three more on the back nine.