From Tiger Woods joking about his disastrous 85 at the Memorial to a spirited ‘Morning Drive’ discussion about a controversial new book, enjoy this edition of Quotes of the Week.
From Tiger Woods joking about his disastrous 85 at the Memorial to a spirited ‘Morning Drive’ discussion about a controversial new book, enjoy this edition of Quotes of the Week.
“Laura Davies is like my idol. She never goes to the range. She never plays practice rounds. I’m like, I’m going to take after her. She had a good career.” - on her aversion to practicing
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“I have 40 putters in there and I hate every one of them.” - referring to the collection of rejected putters he takes on his bus from tournament to tournament
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“I would have liked to have seen the LPGA name remain in the title, but there would have been a lot of P’s and G’s.” - on the renaming of the LPGA Championship to the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship
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“You might see me walk backwards, walk sideways, maybe crawl a couple of times, but I’ll make it up the hills.” - joking about negotiating the rolling terrain of Westchester Country Club, site of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, with an ailing left hip
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“I will not be discussing the Open course with anyone, so it will be [quiet] on Twitter next week.” - on refusing to offer his thoughts on U.S. Open venue Chambers Bay until after the tournament
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“It’s about getting reps. I got a lot of reps this weekend.” - joking about his Saturday and Sunday rounds of 85-74 in the Memorial Tournament
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“She has more talent than anybody out there, and everyone wonders why she hasn’t been No. 1. But the biggest thing that’s been in her way has been herself.” - on Suzann Pettersen
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“He [Tiger Woods] can’t afford any more surgeries or physical setbacks that keep him out for more than three months, because there’s just - every setback like sets you back in dog years. For every month, it’s seven months almost in terms of recapturing your game and getting the timing back and all of those other things.”
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“There’s no louder Christian on the PGA Tour than Bubba Watson and in my opinion, no bigger hypocrite.” - commenting, on Golf Channel’s ‘Morning Drive,’ on his controversial new book, ‘Slaying the Tiger’
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“I was frankly disgusted by a lot of it.” - commenting, on ‘Morning Drive,’ about Ryan’s book and objecting to the author making ‘blanket characterization statements’ about players in it
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“I think he was very, very sharp in a lot of his observations of PGA Tour players. ... Our job is not to root for players. ... I think a lot of people are confused by what the media’s role is.” - commenting, on ‘Morning Drive,’ about Ryan’s book and what the media’s role is
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