Jim Nantz Quotes

Needless to say, the Masters is the tournament I'd like to play in and win the most. I've never seen it in person and wouldn't go even if you gave me tickets, because I made a promise to myself as a kid that I wouldn't go until I played my way there.

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.

But we do have a golf course near by and I play fairly regularly.

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.

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

Golf course design is exciting.

I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

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.

If you could just turn pro and go immediately to the PGA Tour, that would be one thing. But that's not how it works. And that's not the lifestyle I want.

Patrick Reed has become a hell of a player.

Augusta National... an oasis of career-defining moments.

Part of the attraction to golf may be that it's just a score on the sheet and there's not much you can do about it.

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

The dream for me was always the Masters and after my freshman season on the Houston golf team I knew CBS was the only way I'd get there.

Phil [Mickelson] has done a great job. He's a great player and he's conducted himself very well through the years. He's been a good ambassador for the game. He hasn't won in a while, but he still has time, and it wouldn't surprise me if he won again.

They do a heck of a job with the PGA professionals around the country and taking care of the clubs and country clubs and everything else, but when it comes to understanding the guys out here on Tour and everything else, I don't think they get it because they're not out here on a regular basis.

I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.

I stopped playing in the Masters in 2004, I stopped playing in the Par-3 [Contest], and now it's time to end this part of my Masters career. I would love to go on doing it forever, but I don't have the physical capability to hit the shot the way I would want to hit it. So I'll have to be content to watch.

People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'

There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.

Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world.

My short game was really what was really bad, to be honest with you. And so my whole deal was I had to hit chips off putting greens all the time, and there were some times where superintendents weren't a huge fan of me.

If there is only one event you could work the rest of your life, it would be Augusta.