"So we came to the conclusion that I think the best way to approach a week is to give yourself a chance Sunday, and if fate is on your side, you find yourself in the winner's circle."

I was fascinated by Matt Kuchar's post second round comments on winning and luck. Might be worth keeping in mind as the weekend unfolds.

Q. And then secondly, let's look at -- obviously you've had -- I actually counted nine Top-10s, but eight or nine, and a second and two thirds. How important is the next step now that you've been playing so well to get to -- I know you had a chance on Sunday and Hunter had a great round. How important is it to get to the next step and win one?

MATT KUCHAR: I've thought and talked to people about that, and it seems like now, the position I've put myself in this year, the logical next step would be to win.

And thought about, all right, going into a tournament week, the thought process should be to win. Yet, I ask the question: What did you do -- or how do you think, if you don't win? Because that's a very likely scenario.

Now, do you leave disappointed if you don't win? And we came to the conclusion that probably the best way to approach it would be -- the goal for the week is to put yourself in contention on Sunday. To win, there's definitely an element of luck involved in winning. You just can't control everything out there. So we came to the conclusion that I think the best way to approach a week is to give yourself a chance Sunday, and if fate is on your side, you find yourself in the winner's circle.

I'm thinking Jack and Tiger were lucky a couple of times each, maybe? Tops? Or, they just aren't talking to the same people as Kuchar.