From players donating money to the victims of Hurricane Harvey to Tiger Woods working on his short game, these are the Top Quotes of the Week.
From players donating money to the victims of Hurricane Harvey to Tiger Woods working on his short game, these are the Top Quotes of the Week.
“Houston has a long recovery in front of it. It’s a 1,000-year flood event and, unfortunately, it’s still raining.” – the president and CEO of the Houston Golf Association, which runs the annual PGA Tour stop.
“Dr. gave me the ok to start pitching.” – on Twitter, accompanying a video of himself working on his short game. Woods hasn’t hit a competitive shot since withdrawing from the Omega Dubai Desert Classic in February and he subsequently underwent lumbar fusion surgery in April.
“We had 20 people come to my house, including kids. They have been there since last Friday. They made a ton of food. I have a generator. We were set up for this type of thing, and not thinking we would ever use it like this, but obviously it came in handy.” – on his home becoming an impromptu shelter for victims of Hurricane Harvey. Stroud lives about 20 miles north of downtown Houston but couldn’t get to town himself because of the storm.
“It’s awful. I’m getting updates, but it’s a pretty helpless feeling. It’s hard to see the pictures, to imagine being there and seeing all of that water. It’s unimaginable.” – on seeing what was going on as Hurricane Harvey hit her hometown of Houston.
“I think you have a lot of good positive momentum on your side, a lot of people cheering for you, a lot of people encouraging just because they want to see you do well, because they want to see that big check go to Houston.” – after carding an 8-under 64 on Friday at the Cambia Portland Classic. Lewis announced she would be donating all of winnings this week to the victims of Hurricane Harvey in her hometown of Houston.
“It just wasn’t getting better. It was getting worse. This was something I had never dealt with before, so I felt like it might be a little bit more than just trying to will it away.” – on a previously undisclosed medical condition that has been affecting his play over the last few years. He declined to go into exactly what the condition was.
“To see this type of devastation is heartbreaking and from getting to know so many of the people there and seeing their struggles it’s just … I’m getting chills now it’s just a heartbreaking moment.” – on his decision to donate $100K to Hurricane Harvey relief.
“But if you asking me honestly [if I am currently the Player of the Year] then I think so, but he [Spieth] has had an unbelievable year too, and DJ. It’s pretty awesome what we’ve all done.” – believing he’s currently in the driver’s seat for PGA Tour Player of the Year.
“I still don’t think it’s a very good hole, but I just felt like with when it’s a little bit helping like that, you can hit it far enough up that left.” – on intentionally hitting his drive on the 12th hole down the adjacent 13th fairway on Friday at the Dell Technologies Championship.
“[Wife] Marie knew I wasn’t really satisfied with my year and to wrap things up early and unsatisfied, she probably knew I wasn’t going to be at my happiest. So she sent me back over here to get the job done.” – on why he was playing the Dell Technologies Championship after originally saying he would be skipping the event to be with his wife and newborn child.
“He said it was as exciting as it could get. It was one of the highest-rated events they have had in a while. That’s awesome. That’s awesome to be a part of it. But it wasn’t a disappointment. I don’t think of it like that at all.” – on his playoff loss to Dustin Johnson at the first FedEx Cup Playoff event at The Northern Trust.