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Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing through my mind.
Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts.
Confidence is when you stand over a shot and know you're going to make it because you've done it time and time again.
Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.
I've traveled the world and been about everywhere you can imagine. There's not anything I'm scared of except my wife.
My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'
I found an instructor, Chris O'Connell, who helped me. He turned me into the player I am today - a consistent golfer.
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
You can play from the wrong position for a long time with good hands, but eventually it's going to catch up with you.
I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?
I always told my team two things: Never expect them to give you anything and always expect them to make the next shot.
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.
I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.
Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.
You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.
Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
I want to be the best at what I do when I go out to play golf, and so when I was building my house, I wanted the best.
Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.
I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.
One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.
You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.
In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.
They say I'm famous for my chip shots. Sure, when I hit 'em right, they land just so, like a butterfly with sore feet.
If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.
I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.
I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.
Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
Life is nothing but a memory. People who dwell on the bad ones aren't going to have a whole lot of good ones coming up.
I like to have this gut to put my elbow on it when I putt because I did it for so long. I just feel healthier this way.
Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.
I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.
Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.
I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.
We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'
I've been going to chiropractor for as long as I can remember. It's as important to my training as practicing my swing.
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.
It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.
I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.
The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.
It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that's not an excuse to play good or bad golf.
I love nothing more than being in the last group on Sunday at the Masters. It's the greatest thing in professional golf.