Hal Sutton Quotes

You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies.

At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.

Being in the fairway, I think the fairways are a little bit more overrated.

The name of the game is put the ball in the hole.

You know what's funny, I really hate Par 3's. I feel like you have to be perfect from jumpstreet. But on Par 5's, you can mess up a little bit, but you still have time to adjust before you get to the hole and still end up with a birdie or a par.

It's kind of exciting again. I'm doing everything right, right now. I'm driving the ball well and I'm hitting some pretty good irons and giving myself opportunities.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.

I don't know how many times I've been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn't matter. It's only the next shot that matters.

Whether you're driving it short or you drive it far, you got to be in the fairway because the rough's brutal, and if you get out of the rough into some of these bunkers, you can get some funky lies.

You just have to drive it in the fairways. If you miss fairways, it's easy to make big numbers.

I just love when I'm playing Northumberland and I'm on the back nine and I see the water and the link bridge.

On a par 5, I can shoot a six. And on a par 3, I can shoot a six, too!

Obviously, if you make birdies, you can move up quickly.

Every time you tee off as a professional golfer, whether people say it or not, your first prerogative is to make the cut. You can't win if you don't make the cut.

I make a lot of bogeys and a lot of birdies.

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.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

I plot the par 5s back from the green and make my plan. If I can reach the green in two shots, I'm going to be aggressive off the tee. But if 's a three-shot hole, the goal changes. You want to put yourself in position to hit your favorite shot to the green.

You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.

He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.

I'm sure you have a hole at your course where you love to hit the tee shot. You can't wait to get up there and bomb away because the fairway is wide, or the hole always plays downwind.