Tom Lehman Quotes

TPC Louisiana, where the Zurich Classic is held, is an outstanding course.

Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.

I've played with amateurs for a million years, and they just don't hit many flush shots.

When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well.

I enjoy hard golf courses.

An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we're lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

I think every part of your game, on this golf course, needs to be good. You've got to hit every club in the bag. You need to drive it well, hit your irons well, and always, if you want to have a chance to win a Major, then you've got to putt it well.

I've had it with the USGA and the way they run their tournaments. The USGA loves to embarrass guys who play in their tournaments.

I only properly played golf when I was 15 or 16. The best course I've done? Pebble Beach in California.

Playing the DP World Tour Championship at the Earth Course is always a great week.

I hate golf to be tricked up. To me it's a fun game.

The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.

Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.