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Throughout my career, I've been sponsored by several different equipment companies - Lynx, Titleist, Callaway.
At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.
You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.
It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon
I'm not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don't go to church like I should.
I've been honest with a lot of the problems I've had in life. Everybody has problems. They can relate to that.
You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
I hope I'll never get too old to want to take part in this event, and I don't think I will ever age that much.
I think if you look at most successful people, if you ask most of them, their biggest influence was their dad.
My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.
I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.
It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too.
To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.
I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.
I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.
I guess I'm not a professional's professional. I think I'd rather go to the dentist than play a practice round.
My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left.
I'm 37, I'm pretty fit and feel I have another eight years left - which means there's 32 Majors still to go at.
It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.
One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.
It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.
Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!
You won't shoot nine under unless you birdie the first two or three holes. You just start firing at everything.
Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.
Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.
I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.
What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.
I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.
Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn
I have lived the American dream in every aspect, and now I hope to make a very big impact in helping the planet.
The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'
There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.
Golf is a very serious part of my life, but when you stop having fun at it, that's when it's time to hang it up.
The greatest thing about golf, there's no end to it unless you're dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.