Quotes About Golf

Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.

I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.

I'm pretty good at golf and I enjoy trying to get better and learning without the stress on your body, without having to be in incredible physical shape.

If practice and preparation were all it took to prevent nerves on the course, tour players would never get rattled.

There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print press for being mired in August, but this isn't fair.

Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I'd made on You-and-Me.com. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.'

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

If I play a round of golf with a pro, it's with Bubba Watson.

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

I feel like I've been able to bring an idea to the world stage and shine a light on a different way to play, an easier way. I want to change the game.

What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.

It is not a cliche to say golf is for the well-off. It is the reality. But the old system which used to make it elite is fading away.

If all else fails, birdie the last.

I can hit a lot of drivers, be aggressive, and attack from the fairway.

Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

I hate whenever there's a social issue that comes up in golf and people in the mainstream media who hate golf and who've conjured up all these stereotypes of people who are in the sport, the way they tear it down... I resent it, and I'll defend golf and people in golf until my dying day.

If you give us soft greens and soft fairways, we're going to tear it apart.