Yani Tseng

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.