If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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We are not seeing a lot of action out of Augusta at all. We do have our local problems, but Augusta is at the root of most of them.
But I can understand only three Australians and eight Japanese in the field. The Japanese buy more in the pro shop. They just backup a truck there and take everything. They're not dummies up at Augusta. They said, 'Invite more Japanese, they'll buy a lot of stuff. The Aussies, nah, they won't buy anything. The beer isn't strong enough for them.
I love Augusta. Don't get me wrong. All I want is for Augusta to be Augusta, because it's such a great tournament. But when you take a golf course and limit the number of people that have the ability to win ... Their intention is not to do that. But they're doing that.
It's not like Augusta, where rough is such a big factor. Here, both length and accuracy can be a huge asset. I haven't had as many chances here as I would have liked or would have thought.
We're the most pro-hunting, pro-public access, pro-multiple use administration that has been in Augusta in a long time.
Look at it this way, ... Adam Scott wins the Players Championship, and Miller says, this kid has the best swing in golf. Now, he has a nice swing, there's no denying it. But you get this stuff, his swing is better than Tiger's, blah blah blah. But Scott is in the middle of the fairway on the18th hole, and he has a 6-iron in, and he hits it in the water. Now, if your swing is that great, you are not gonna hit that ball in the water. His swing is good -- I'm not trying to say his swing is bad. But you're gonna miss to the right, anywhere to the right. Then he shoots whatever he shot at the Bell South, and misses the cut. Then he shoots 80 at Augusta, and no one even says anything about it. Nobody says, oh, maybe we jumped the gun on that one. Which is a little bit unfair.
We had a company calling all the way from Augusta on behalf of a state trooper benevolent association. There was also a company calling around presenting itself as the 'Glynn County Police and Sheriff Association.' The only problem is that we've checked around and there is no such organization.
In my first two events this year, my putting was bad. I didn't have any control with the speed of the greens, but on the way to Perth, I was thinking the greens are very fast in Australia. I like fast greens like in Augusta National.
The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.
I love Augusta. But when they take the golf tournament and the golf course and limit the number of people who have the ability to win . . . that is the problem.
The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.
Despite an injury to his wrist that forced him to miss the four Tour events preceding the Masters, Duval shot a very fit 71-66-70 and then, playing two groups ahead of Sunday's leaders, unreeled seven birdies in the first 10 holes to grab a share of the lead with Woods. Duval, who was in the hunt on Sunday before losing to Vijay Singh at Augusta last year and to O'Meara three years ago, kept track of Woods as best he could. Roars would rattle through the pines, one neighboring rill to another, and frankly, It seemed like a lack of them, ... I was thinking, I'm in it.
John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
The gap today is so small, why not go ahead and follow the lead of other majors, ... But as with Augusta, sex discrimination in sports doesn't have to make sense if folks enforcing it are stubborn enough.
I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.