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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
- Nov 07, 2020
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
- Correcting
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- Nov 07, 2020
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Focus on remedies, not faults.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Dedication
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- Nov 07, 2020
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
- Anxiety
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
- Club
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- Nov 07, 2020
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The game is meant to be fun.
- Downhill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf is a better game played downhill.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
- Nov 07, 2020
This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
- Better Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
- Columbus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
- Computer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can barely turn on my computer!
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
- Course
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
- Ice Cream
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
- Golfer
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- Nov 07, 2020