David Toms Quotes on Golf (18 Quotes)


    I really don't see it being an issue, unless for some reason I have an incident this week on the golf course, or off the golf course, ... I certainly hope that doesn't happen.

    It's not disappointing at all. I played a good, solid round of golf today under tough conditions, and I came back from a disappointing day yesterday. I feel good about leaving here.

    Did a lot of good stuff today. I hit some bad shots, but overall, another good, solid round of golf and put myself right there with a chance to win the golf tournament going to the weekend. You know, that's what I'm here to try to do. So I'm in good position so far.

    Exactly, ... I really don't see it being an issue at all, unless for some reason I have an incident this week on the golf course, or off the golf course. I certainly hope that that doesn't happen.

    There are obviously superstars that win all the time, and it looks like it comes easy to them. Maybe it looked like it came easy to me because I played great, but on the inside, it's always a battle. To overcome all of that and win a golf tournament, it's the ultimate reward for all those emotions that you go through.


    I was on the opposite side of the golf course, and there's nobody out there watching us play golf. You knew where she was the whole time. It was almost like a Tiger-type following. You know where she was on the golf course. That says a lot. I don't think that wears off until that goes away for some reason. I just don't see that happening any time soon.

    There's so much that goes into it other than playing the golf course.

    As far as a guy leaving town with a million bucks, he's still going to pay some taxes to go to the city, so it will be good. It's going to economically bring some dollars in that they would not otherwise have if we would have pulled the plug on the golf tournament. So I think it's a very, very important week.

    It's a place that I'm fond of, so many memories of all that water flowing across the golf course. Standing up there by the clubhouse and watching it all, you realize the power of water.

    I really don't see it being an issue at all, unless for some reason I have an incident this week on the golf course, ... For now I'm going about business as usual and my golf feels fine and I don't have any effects from it at all to be honest.

    Just a fun day to play golf. I definitely think last week helped me, coming in here when we had tough conditions (the first two days). Then when it doesn't blow, and you can hit a normal shot, you're licking your chops that, hey, I can score here.

    They're going to play the golf course a different way than I'm going to play the golf course. I've got to be able to post something in front of them every day and see if it's good enough.

    It's personal and I'm not a very confrontational person, I don't like that kind of thing in my life. It's still going on, and probably will go on into next year. I finally started playing better when I realized I had two choices -- either continue to dwell on it or let the lawyers take care of it and let me go play golf. It was kind of weird.

    I'm sure he'll be ready to play tomorrow morning and make up for what happened in our match last year. And it should make for some great golf.

    In a way, (the rules) makes (the Masters) different, and it makes it special and it makes it unique. But then again, it's still a golf tournament. It's the players that make that tournament. It's Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods battling down the stretch that makes that event successful on television around the world. It's not how green the grass is on the No. 1 fairway.

    With only a couple of networks, people know where to tune in for golf. But you might lose the casual fan who might not subscribe to The Golf Channel. I know they've been pushing hard to grow the tour, and we've had a tough economic environment. I think they did a good job.

    He's one of those special guys that doesn't come along very often. Watching his game, how he goes about his business, it's still very impressive. You can tell he's been able to do what he's done because he's different. He's more driven and more focused than any person I've ever been around in professional golf.

    It's hard to make a golf course that will please everybody. What you try to do is make one that everybody can play and then it doesn't necessarily play into one person's type of game. That's what we tried to do here.


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