Fred Funk Quotes

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.

I love putting. I love to practice my short game.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

I was a big kid who could putt well.

My strength is short game. I love the creative side to it. You can hit a wedge a million different ways. The flop is my fave.

If you're aiming for a hole in one, and you get one, you feel lucky - but at the same time you can justifiably say, 'Well, I was aiming for the hole anyway.'

The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.

When I'm aggressive and things are moving quick and my feet are in place, I'm a better, more accurate thrower.

I can't putt. The reasons are infinite. When lining up a putt, I can't remember if the ball always breaks to the ocean or to the valley or away from Pinnacle Peak. And because I took up the game in Minnesota, in what is often called Middle America, I also grew up asking, 'To which ocean does it break?'

You can roll the ball a long way with a stroke that has the force of a five-yard chip. Good rhythm and less effort are how you control the putterface and, in turn, the ball.

I like to hit every shot in the book.

At Isleworth, they get the greens up to the sort of speeds we see at Augusta, so it's really helpful.

I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it's just you, the ball, and the target.

I've always been a good ball-striker, but if you're not a great putter, you're not going to win a lot.

The U.S. Open is not John Daly's style of golf.

Would I have done anything different? I might have put a golf club in my hand instead of a cue. I love watching those guys play. Every situation is different, everything - every shot - has to be so precise.

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

Golf is a whole different sport, a whole different challenge, everything.

Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it's a great shot, but if it goes in, it's luck?

I play fairly aggressively week to week and fire at a lot of pins. So I might miss more greens than other pros, but I'm still only a few yards from the hole when I do. That being said, when I really need to hit a green in regulation, I'm confident in my swing.

I rely on my ball striking more than anything.