Quotes About Golf

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

It's a different style of golf; that stands out for sure when you come over to America. The style of play and the golf courses in America. Most golf courses in America either stretch your game, and test different elements of your game and the margins for error are smaller.

With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike.

I didn't start playing golf until '94, when the strike cut the season short. Never having played as a kid definitely makes it a challenge.

I rely on my ball striking more than anything.

I play to win. And if I string together four of my best rounds at the Masters then there's no doubt about it - I will wear the jacket.

There are so many aspects of the game that you can work on - you can drive it father, you can drive it straighter, you can hit your irons higher and more consistently, you can get better with your wedges, and you can always putt better. There's never an end to that striving to get better in golf.

Good putting starts with understanding the difference between a stroke and a hit. You want to make a stroke and let the energy of that back-and-through motion carry the ball to the hole.

My driver is my strongest club - it's what my game kind of revolves around.

I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.

I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

I was Graeme McDowell's neighbour for eight years in Orlando.

St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.

To be out here on the PGA Tour, especially during the summer, is a dream come true. I'm just trying to get to know a lot of the guys out here.

TPC Louisiana, where the Zurich Classic is held, is an outstanding course.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

Being in the fairway, I think the fairways are a little bit more overrated.

I think I shot 78 one time. My golf game is so overrated.