I need to improve my shorter stuff with my irons, from 100 to 175 yards. If I can hit a few more greens with those clubs and tighten up the proximity to the hole, that would help a lot.
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
When I'm on really tough golf courses, I feel like I'm more focused because I'm really trying to hit the ball to a certain spot, instead of, a lot of times, when I struggle sometimes is just staying mentally focused on every shot.
Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident.
The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.
I need to get better with my 3-wood and hybrid. Those are the clubs I missed the majority of my fairways with.
When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.
Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You've got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you're in the boondocks it won't do you any good.
Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.
If you are hitting the ball well, your form, your technique looks good, and when you are not, everything about your game looks bad. That is how it goes.
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
I think the way the greens are, you need to be very accurate with your irons. Whether there's wind or not, the most important thing out here is being able to control the distance of your irons and the direction. I've done that pretty well the last couple of days.
Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards - and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.
I will fall in love with any golf course that you have to drive the ball straight. You understand what I'm saying? That's my advantage. My advantage wasn't putting. In fact, I wasn't even a great putter or a good putter.
I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
I love to play three-quarter iron shots. They take a lot of extra movement out of the swing, which increases my chance of hitting it solid with the face square to the target.
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
I remember, when I won at Tucson by nine shots in 1975, I would say the average iron shot I hit that week was no more than two feet off line. It was unbelievable.
A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.
I have never been able to play consistently with soft hands.
If I could be like Happy Gilmore or Kyle Berkshire, hitting over 400 yards and hitting it straight? That is a massive, massive advantage. So I set out to do that, and I've been healthier and stronger ever since.
In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.
