Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.
A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.
I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
You can only play one hole at a time.
If you've ever played golf, you know that you yell 'fore' off the tee. You're not threatening somebody; you're warning them: 'Look, don't get hit by the ball, it's coming.'
If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio.
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.
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course
Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You've got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you're in the boondocks it won't do you any good.
I struggle off the tee. If I can hit my driver straight, then I'm usually playing well.
Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
I'm sure you have a hole at your course where you love to hit the tee shot. You can't wait to get up there and bomb away because the fairway is wide, or the hole always plays downwind.
I make sure that I'm 100 percent ready to go before I put that tee into the ground.
It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.
