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.
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
Golf is a better game played downhill.
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.
There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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.
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.
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.
There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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.
Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
