Augusta National Quotes

Once again it is peaceful at Augusta National Golf Club, after some rather ugly stand-offs in recent years, when the club balked at changing its all-white, all-male membership tradition. African-Americans and female Americans are on the club manifest now along with other golf-Americans, and all is serene once again.

The Masters is poetry to me.

Sad to say I’m missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes.

The shot heard round the world.

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

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.

Every champion golfer comes to Augusta imbued with a towering source of inspiration. It's a solitary journey, but it's one that no player... makes alone.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

The experience at the Masters was two years ago, and I am eager to win again this year so I can return to Augusta National in 2016.

Since 1934 every accomplished player in golf has come to the Augusta National looking for an introduction into history.

Most people would say it's the start of golf. When you see the flowers blooming at Augusta National and you hear Jim Nantz come on and start speaking about it, it's that time of year.

If you're one of the fortunate few on this Earth with a pass to enter the gates of Augusta National on Masters Sunday, you don't leave early. You just don't. If it's a Masters Sunday when Tiger Woods is near the top of the leader board, you really don't leave early.

Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second.

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

The Masters is always at the front and center of my mind, and not because I'm the only one thinking about it. Other people associate me with this great event, and that's an honor.

People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States.

Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.

There's nothing like sitting and watching the Masters on TV.

I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

The Masters is the one tournament with a timeless quality, where legends are celebrated.

I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.