Rory McIlroy reflects back on his “pretty good run,” Tiger Woods goes “old school” with his putting stroke and more in this edition of Quotes of the Week.
Rory McIlroy reflects back on his “pretty good run,” Tiger Woods goes “old school” with his putting stroke and more in this edition of Quotes of the Week.
“No not at all, ‘cause then I could tell everybody I beat the President.” - when asked if he would let President Trump beat him
“The weather starts getting nice, the grass starts growing. I get to play golf, I get to take my mind off basketball for a second and just remember why I’m here. Just to have fun and take it back to when I was a little kid just dying to be in this position.” - on what he credits for his playoff resurgence
“It all worked out great and I’m really happy that I didn’t screw it up for him.” - on helping a fan propose at the Wells Fargo
“I went back home and sort of decompressed, binge watched a couple of shows, read a couple of books, drank a few bottles of wine. No, I don’t mean like that. That sounds really bad, it wasn’t that bad.” - on how he got over a disappointing finish at the Masters
“Now, I think after everything that’s happened over the past 50 years and the improvements that Augusta makes year on year, I feel like the amount of time between the last major of the season, the first major of the season, the hype, the eyeballs, the everything, I think it’s just a notch above the other ones.” - on why he thinks the Masters is the top mjor
“I changed my [putting] stroke a little bit and went a little more old school, how I used to putt, a little more handsy, a little more wristy, and the toe moving a lot more, and it worked.” - on his improved putting in Round 3
“Yeah, it’s totally ironic. First low round of the year, I feel like, and I have to go piss in a cup.” - on being drug tested after shooting 62 in Round 3
“I wouldn’t say I took things for granted. I just was like, I just kind of had enough ... You can’t get in there and just kind of, you know, give it only 50 percent. So this year my goal was to try to get back to No. 1. I know it’s going to be tough, but I’ve got to work hard.”
“Probably Augusta.” - on the most score-able course he has played this year
“You’re always going to look back and you’re going to have things that you would have done differently, but at the end of the day if you look at it big picture-wise and things that I’ve accomplished and the things that I’ve learned over the last eight or nine years, it’s been a pretty good run.” - reflecting on the eve of his 29th birthday
“I’ll have something made up of my own so I can give Rick’s back.” - on his putter plans after borrowing Rickie Fowler’s backup