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.
When I stay athletic with good posture and get the club away in a good position, I get through it better.
Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand.
It's important for me to understand more about my swing and my game, no matter who I end up working with.
I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.
There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.
The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.
As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.
When I fall behind, my swing changes.
Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.
Grip pressure - not mechanical flaws - is the biggest factor when you're nervous. You unconsciously grip it tighter, which keeps you from making a smooth swing with a natural release. Keep your grip pressure light, and you'll be surprised how much your mechanics stabilize.
Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.
I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.
I'm one of a few guys on the PGA Tour who doesn't work with an instructor. I'm not saying mechanics don't matter. But I play my best when I focus on staying in a good place mentally and keep the technique simple.
Golf is played with the arms.
I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.
I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.
Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.
My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.
Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.
The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
