Tim Finchem Quotes

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

I can sit here and hit all the balls and chip and putt all day long, but if you're not playing competitive golf... there's nothing better than competitive golf.

I have many golfer friends whom I play with, including my good friend Ian Poulter, a professional golfer who's coming to Asia to play in a few tournaments.

Golf is not easy.

I started playing in '98, but I got hooked by playing celebrity golf tournaments. Tiger had a lot to do with it - his passion, the way that he plays. He's unique and different, and he inspired a lot of my passion. It's a sport you can't master. If you're an athlete, you can do almost anything, but golf is not like that.

My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game as far as just taking me to the driving range where I grew up playing. That was really all he had to do was let me hit a golf ball and kind of fell in love with it from there. He didn't really have to teach me a whole lot or anything.

I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I'm not obsessive; I don't play in the dark, but even that's not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.

I'm such a lover of golf, and I've been at the Masters a couple times, and I've been so blessed to get to play there.

It's very, very difficult to win golf tournaments.

I went to the driving range and hit a couple of good shots and I was hooked. Now I have six putters, including one engraved with my name.

I got off the school bus every day at the driving range. I'd hit balls and goof around all day out there. I picked up balls by hand every night. That was my job.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.

I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14.

The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.

Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

Golf's a great game, and you meet a lot of people along the way.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.