I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.
Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.
Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.
I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.
I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.
We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American.
That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.
All is fair in love and golf.
If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
PGA of America has been very good to me; played some of the Junior Ryder Cups, and those go down as some of the best experiences I've had on a golf course.
I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.
I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.
I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.
I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?
