Matt Kuchar Quotes

I started changing my swing in late 1999.

I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.

Seems like my iron play gets a little better every year. Which makes sense - I've been working hard on things with my teacher, Jim McLean.

I would say that my downswing mirrors the path of my backswing pretty closely.

My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

The funny thing about the golf swing is that you try to alter it and end up with the same faults as you've had all your life.

It's important for me to understand more about my swing and my game, no matter who I end up working with.

I need to get better with my 3-wood and hybrid. Those are the clubs I missed the majority of my fairways with.

I'm a very analytical guy, I like to study my swing, I like to study what my back foot is doing, my elbow, whatever it might be, and there's a lot of guys nowadays that are like that. That's the trend of the game, that's the way the game has gone.

If you are hitting the ball well, your form, your technique looks good, and when you are not, everything about your game looks bad. That is how it goes.

When I fall behind, my swing changes.

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand.

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.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

I used to turn my shoulders pretty level, which a lot of golfers think is correct. But that made my swing too shallow coming into impact, so my contact was picky, especially off the turf.

My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

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.

I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is because the bottoms of both swings - the area around impact - are identical.