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Editor's note: Brett Quigley is playing in the Wachovia Championship this week -- his first start since the Masters and the birth of his first child, a daughter named Lily. He took time out after playing in Wednesday's pro-am to catch PGATOUR.com fans up on what's been happening in his life lately.

CHARLOTTE -- Being a father is way better than I thought it would be. I didn't have the full perspective after just being there a day when Lily was born and then going back to Augusta. Now after three weeks at home with Amy and Lily and feedings and diapers and the whole experience, it's amazing. I just can't begin to fathom how awesome it's going to be the rest of my life with her. She already has me wrapped around her little finger. Just having her lay on my chest when she's sleeping and hearing her breathe, or holding her in my arms trying to get her to sleep in the morning, well, it's just incredible. I can't even put it into words how beautiful it is.

Brett Quigley has two top-25 finishes so far this season. (WireImage)

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I changed a million diapers already. She's a champ, too. She goes through about 20 a day. I remember the first pack of Huggies I bought her. It had to be a 40-pack and I thought it would last the whole week. But it lasted three days -- just three days. I was like, oh my goodness. But I've been very hands on. I enjoy it. I didn't think I would be that person -- I thought I would be grossed out. I'm not, though. Plus, I never thought I would be a big germaphobe. But we have more hand sanitizer now when you walk in my house -- next to the sink, in the baby's room, in our room, in the laundry room -- it's everywhere. I've washed or cleaned my hands more in the last month probably than I have in my whole life. Every five minutes, I'm going over to squirt some out and rub my hands. Am I clean? It's pretty funny.

But I love every minute of it. Just hearing all the different cries is something special. She cries when she's getting her diaper changed and then when you put the new one on, she's fine. She quiets right down. And she loves to be swaddled. I love that, too -- just walking around the house and talking with her. I've got some new pictures now. Amy sends them to me on my computer so I have lots of photos I can look at each night. She's already changing. Her face has changed a bunch just in the three weeks I've been home. You can see in the pictures. She's starting to get a big fat face. She's starting to put some weight on, too. To see that already is wild.

I'm 37 years old now, and I think I can appreciate being a father more than I would have if I were younger. I am certainly not as stressed out about it as I might have been. I wish I was a little younger for the sleep thing, though. That part's amazing -- every two-and-a-half hours, three hours, feeding her. That's been hard on Amy. You don't get used to that. Last night was my first night alone in the last three weeks. I woke up at 3 o'clock right when we feed, and I was wide awake. I was like what can I do? It's funny, to miss them that much already.

As far as golf is concerned, I took the first week completely off. The second week I only played once or twice, but last week I started getting back into it. My uncle Dana had the week off from the Champions Tour and he and my dad kept calling me to come play. They finally wore me down enough that I played Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So I was getting back into it a little bit. It was really hard to say goodbye to Lily and Amy and leave yesterday. Now that I'm back here, though, I'm kind of in that mode again. So I'm ready to get back and play and play hard. I know I'm not as sharp since I haven't played competitively since Augusta, though. I'm sure I'll be a little rusty tomorrow. I'll need to kind of feel my way around. I'm definitely more relaxed. It's probably good for me to take some of the edge off. I sometimes try too hard out here. I played with Brad Faxon and Jeff Sluman and Will MacKenzie the other day and had a great practice round for not being out here for a while. So I think that will be good. And it's a big stretch coming up. This is a big week, and then there's THE PLAYERS and Atlanta, Colonial and Memorial. I'll probably play those five. I think Amy and Lily will come out next week to THE PLAYERS. I fly home Sunday and I'll drive back up to Ponte Vedra on Monday with them. It will be great to have them with me.