I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.
Being away for the weekends, and me being the international player that I have been for those 30 years, I've spent a lot more time flying around the world, playing different golf tournaments around the world.
Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.
I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.
I've done sport for a long time.
I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.
I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.
I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
You know what? I've won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.