Precision Golf Quotes

The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead.

At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.

In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.

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.

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.

I have to chase down the most scientifically efficient way to get the golf ball in the hole.

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.

You have to have fine motor control to make putts when you need them the most. That's why golf is such a challenge - you go from extreme power to slowing down and making putts when you need them.

My strength is short game. I love the creative side to it. You can hit a wedge a million different ways. The flop is my fave.

In golf, there are times when you hit a ball so perfectly that you never feel the ball leave your club.