Golf Tactics Quotes

You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.

I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.

If you can hit your 3- and 5-woods with confidence from the fairway, par 5s become birdie opportunities, and 420-yard par 4s are a lot less scary.

Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can't play every hole the same way. I never could.

Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.

I'm going to have wedge when guys are going have a 6-iron, plain and simple.

At Pebble Beach, even on your good shots, you've got to hit it to the correct side of the holes to save pars.

I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different.

When you get to the tee on a really long par 5, I know what you're feeling. You want to let the shaft out on the driver and try to bomb it down there. I get the same feeling. But a big tee shot is not always the best strategy, especially on a long hole.

Check the card before you play. If you have a couple of long par 3s, put an extra hybrid in your bag. You'll be glad you did.

In match play, you don't ever want to play anybody that you know just because you don't want to send them home, but you don't want to go home yourself, either.

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

I plot the par 5s back from the green and make my plan. If I can reach the green in two shots, I'm going to be aggressive off the tee. But if 's a three-shot hole, the goal changes. You want to put yourself in position to hit your favorite shot to the green.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.

But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.

I do like to point out the trick putts, the ones that look like they go one way but actually go another. I think the audience likes to know when a putt looks like it's two inches outside left, but it's actually two inches outside right.

I can hit a lot of drivers, be aggressive, and attack from the fairway.

Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.