Quotes About Course Management

At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.

But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

I know every year what my players get and what courses they get them in. I get a report every semester. What course. What grades.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Jack Nicklaus was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player