Christopher Guest Quotes

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

I found an instructor, Chris O'Connell, who helped me. He turned me into the player I am today - a consistent golfer.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

It's important for me to understand more about my swing and my game, no matter who I end up working with.

I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.

I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.

Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

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.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.