I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.
Happiness is a long walk with a putter.
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.
Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.
I had one job that was kind of cop-like. One summer I did security at a miniature golf course. Just standing out in the sun all day, Hey, hey, excuse me sir. Get your putter out of the whale's ass. Come on, this is a place of miniature business. This is not a playground even though it looks like a playground.
The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.
Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.
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.
I kid my friends who are golfers, and I say, 'If you ever hear me complain, hit me in the butt with a putter' because I have no reason to complain. Even on days when you don't like what you see in the paper, I have no reason to complain.
I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.
I've always been a good ball-striker, but if you're not a great putter, you're not going to win a lot.
I'm a good putter. Like good shooters, just keep shooting. I'm just going to keep putting, and they're going to start going in.
