Haas blog: Plenty to remember from victorious week

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Bill Haas and his assistant captain father Jay Haas posed with The Presidents Cup along with their wives.

Editor's note; Bill Haas, the reigning FedExCup champion, is playing in his first Presidents Cup this week at Royal Melbourne. The three-time TOUR champ is following in the footsteps of his dad, Jay, who played in two Presidents Cups and serves as an assistant captain this week for the second time. Bill will be doing an exclusive blog this week for PGATOUR.COM and this is his final installment.

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MELBOURNE, Australia -- I knew I would have a really tough match against Geoff Ogilvy today, and I was right. When I made the birdie at No. 17, it looked like maybe I could square the match but then he made one on top of me. Then on the 18th he hit a really good drive and knocked it on the green and I didn't. I had to chip out and made 5. So I am very disappointed that I didn't give it more of a go at the end but it's a team event. I got a point-and-a-half for the team so I did my part there. All but one of my matches went to the 18th (and that one ended at No. 17) so I got my money's worth.

I told our captain, Fred Couples, that being his pick, I worked my butt off and I grinded every shot. I never gave up and I told him that was all I could do for him. I didn't get him all the points that he wanted from me but I'm not disappointed with my whole week and how I went about things. And today was awesome. It was so cool to win The Presidents Cup. Just seeing Jim Furyk in the middle of all those Australian guys with that yellow shirt on -- that's an element of Jim Furyk, a side of Jim Furyk, that you just don't see. And then to have all the guys -- and Tiger in the mix -- and win, well, it was something I will never forget. It's pretty neat to be a part of all that. They're already talking about what the team room will be like tonight. and how much fun it will be. We'll see how much sleep we get.

Golf is still an individual game but the amount of support you get when you come off the green is amazing. You win a match and you're the hero. But if you don't, they're still picking you up and telling you how great you are. Week-in and week-out you get done with your rounds, and nobody really cares how you do except you and your caddie so it's pretty cool to be a part of this atmosphere and get to know these guys better than I already did.

There's so much that I will always remember about this week. Having my dad here as an assistant captain was really special. The entire time he treated me like another member of the team and not like a son -- and I loved that. I didn't want to feel any different than the rest of the guys, and that's the way I think it felt in the team room. I don't think they saw me as Jay Haas' son in there. I was their teammate, and that was exactly the way I wanted it. And to have my mom here was great. With my brother and his wife having their first baby last week, she could have totally stayed at home and I would have understood. But to have her walk every hole with me in the rain and the wind was special.

I am also going remember the putt Hunter made in our match for me to win the only point that I won. And I know I'll remember what happened at the end there today -- just walking around, watching Tiger clinch the matches, and watching Steve Stricker there in the final match. I mean, he could have been, like, 'who cares' there at the end but he hit it in there 10 feet at No. 16 and a good one into the 17th, too. I'll definitely remember 90 percent of it as good -- but I hate not winning as many matches as I wanted. I played my butt off, though, and just got beat a few times. But I grinded hard out there.

Next up for me is Tiger's event, the Chevron World Challenge. It's been fun talking to him about that this week. I am honored to be going there -- just to make that field is an unbelievable achievement. So I'll go home for a week -- I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving -- and I probably won't play a ton of golf. But maybe I'll go out to California and have a good finish to the year.