Ernie Els Quotes

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

Name me one golfer that doesn't get frustrated.

My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that's what I am, a golfer. If my back lets me, I'm going to play my favorite places. If I hurt myself, that'll probably be it for a while.

All you can do is really the prep work and make sure you're ready to hit each golf shot. Outside of that, you're not sure really what's going to happen. It's a funny game, but I think that's why I love it. You never know, one day to the next; you could go shoot 62, and the next day you're going to shoot 78, and you can't predict it.

Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second.

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

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

My golf game is lacking big time.

I struggle off the tee. If I can hit my driver straight, then I'm usually playing well.

I always go to the Masters knowing I'm going to play well.

It happens throughout the year where your swing feels better, or it feels worse; you feel good, you feel bad.

The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver. My brother and I ended up being known for our distance, but we had no idea how far we could hit the ball because we hit it the same, and all of a sudden, we're going to tournaments, and we're driving the par-4s. At 10 years old, I was hitting it, like, 240.

It's no secret that I'm a fan of hitting a lot of balls.

If I can figure out this wedge stuff and become a really good wedger, I'll be the number-one player in the world.

There are guys you've never heard of who drive the ball better than anybody I've seen on the PGA Tour.

When I fall behind, my swing changes.

I'm going to try to get my kid involved in golf and maybe try to get my kid to try to qualify for the PGA Tour. That's my dream.

I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.