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I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.
I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.
You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.
I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.
There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike.
Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.
The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.
There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat
When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.
I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.
The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.
The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.
I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.
The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.
Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.
That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.
If I had won...all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.
Long-term effects of taking painkillers and anti-inflammatories are never really good. To find another form of relief has been great.
I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt.
If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.
Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts.
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.
There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.
Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving.
Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.
I'm going to go out and play really hard. If I have another win, it will be icing on the cake. But I don't take anything for granted.
You probably don't hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.
I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.
I play to win. And if I string together four of my best rounds at the Masters then there's no doubt about it - I will wear the jacket.
Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.
You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.
Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.
One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.
A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.
Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.
One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.
Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.
The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.
Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method.