Ernie Els Quotes

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

I very rarely watch anybody swing. All I do is follow where the ball goes.

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.

The biggest mistake is trying to pinch down on the ball and ripping out a big divot, often hitting the ground before the ball. You'll dig up some turf, but you won't create much backspin.

It's very difficult to consistently hit good iron shots if you get off to a bad start. That's why I'm always paying attention to my setup and takeaway.

You can't swing with hesitation; you can't try to steer the ball to the flag; you can't worry about that water hazard as you take the club back. You have to pick the right club, visualize the shot you want to hit, and then focus on that shot until the ball is gone.

Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

Your longest drives will come when you feel you're swinging at 75 percent.

I would say that my downswing mirrors the path of my backswing pretty closely.

The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is because the bottoms of both swings - the area around impact - are identical.

You should never get set over the ball and then aim your putter face. If you do it in that order, you can easily lose sight of your intended line. Instead, aim the face down your line first, then settle your body into position.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.

I think of all my iron shots as punches - not punch shots, but how much pressure I'm applying to the hit.

I make sure that I'm 100 percent ready to go before I put that tee into the ground.

In snooker, it's very important to keep very still on the shot and allow the cue to do the work.

If you make the effort to address the moves that cause a slice, you can straighten out all your shots. It won't happen overnight, but if you're systematic about it, the process will work.

I'm not someone who looks to swing the ball away majorly.

We've been trying to get my body and head moving toward the target on the downswing. I have a tendency to hang back and not release the club.

A lot of people go up there and think about what they're going to do - I just hit. I relax and don't think about anything. I just want to hit the ball as hard and as far as I can.

As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low

I have one idiosyncrasy that helps my driving accuracy. I grip down on the club. This makes it easier to control the clubface.