Professional Golfers Quotes

Golf doesn't really have many big guys.

I don't watch much golf.

I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.

Mini-tour life isn't a glamorous, professional golf life. If you're not on the PGA Tour, it is very tough financially.

An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we're lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.

I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.

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

The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.

Putting is so difficult, so universally vexing, that the best the pros can do is tell us how to miss. 'Miss it on the pro side,' they say, meaning miss it above the hole. I can't even do that consistently. I miss it on the pro side. I miss it on the amateur side. I miss it on both sides of the clown's mouth.

The Masters isn't about Jim Nantz and his storytelling. It's about golf's greatest tournament.

I remember the reason why did I start my golf. We had a four day game I was playing for Trinidad against the Leeward Islands. They had in their ranks Winston Benjamin, Curtly Ambrose and Kenneth Benjamin. To add to it, the track was a green top. The four day game lasted two days, so I had two days to play golf.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet

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 think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.

I don't think that golf has a place for two sets of rules. I think one of the reasons that the game has progressed in the way that it has over the years is the fact that the amateurs and the pros all play the same game, and they play under the same set of rules.

Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.

Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.

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.

I've had it with the USGA and the way they run their tournaments. The USGA loves to embarrass guys who play in their tournaments.

Then Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in. I'll caddie for Jack.

I'm pretty close with a lot of guys, like Nick Watney and Steve Marino, D.J. Trahan and Charlie Warren.

I don't look so much for tips. But when they interview a Nicklaus or a Palmer, I'm all ears. I listen to guys who have done it, been successful for years.

There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.

I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US.