David Duval Quotes

For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

Tiger's a horrible golf teacher.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

I found an instructor, Chris O'Connell, who helped me. He turned me into the player I am today - a consistent golfer.

Hit the ball pretty solid. Haven't played a lot of golf this year, so was really unsure of what it would be like. I've been playing pretty well lately, especially hitting the ball solid.

I like to address all parts of my game, but I'm really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.

My golf game is lacking big time.

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

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.

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

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

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

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

It's fun to be able to play good golf not having your A game.

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

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

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.