Davis III Quotes (50 Quotes)

We'll take today over the (previous) two days, when the wind blew like crazy. It was a little easier to play.

It seems like every time he gets close, he has another bad tournament. It's hard for all of us to imagine playing great, and it's also hard to imagine when you're playing great to be playing bad again.

When you've got a day like today when the scoring is good, you have to shoot a good score and not put yourself behind. It's not a good course to catch up on, because it's going to get harder and harder every day. It's nice to get off to a good start.

I hit the ball in the fairway a bunch and that certainly helped. I'm feeling confident with the putter. Zach didn't put a whole lot of pressure on me, but he did play solid. I stayed just ahead of him.

If you put the ball in the fairway, there's a few birdie holes out there. But it's a tournament where you know you're going to play four rounds, and you're going to grind it out. ... It's kind of like a mini-major. It plays very tough, and it gets harder as it goes along, and the scores don't seem to get too much lower unless it's weather related.

It was a difficult day. It was hard to control the ball and then it quit raining, but it got cold. My hands got cold and the ball didn't want to go anywhere.

He's fit, and he's excited about his game, and he's playing well. I'm not surprised. Tom's a competitor. He wants to he's like Tom Kite when he was Ryder Cup captain. He wants to make the team and screw everything up.

I think the home course helps a lot and its right in the middle of a lot of big tournaments for us.

It was my fault, I thought I heard him say 'good'.

I don't think anybody is really worried about the lead yet, ... This golf course will bite you if you don't pay attention to what you're doing, so keep playing one shot at a time.

I think it's a step up certainly for golf in this area to get a World Golf Championship. You know, guys will move out of the top and new guys will take their place. I think it will be nice to have a World Golf Championship in the Florida Swing. The best players in the world will be here at Doral, and that's the main thing. It will give guys an incentive to make it here.

That's what happens when you miss every fairway and every putt. You shoot a big number.

They played very difficult coming in. I mean you had to kill it off 17 just to be able to get your short club to the green on your third shot.

I saw the club head at the top of Love's golf swing and you could almost do chin-ups on it.

You see the effort they put into it, ... and to have them do it three times, we certainly want them to have a win. All of us have seen both sides of it, too. It's not a whole lot of fun when you lose, and tying is about the same.

If a kid in high school or college came to me and asked, 'What do I do to get better that you didn't do' I'd tell him I missed out on a lot of the fitness wave that's so obvious out here now. The majority of players are doing it, but when I first got out, no one was.

Sutton solved the chemistry problem. He couldn't solve the sudden and perplexing problem of bad golf. Hal did a great job, we just didn't play for him, ... It's going to be a long two years.

This team has been playing together for a long time. We fit together, we have fun together. But we were playing for Jack Nicklaus.

He kept the pressure on me. He didn't give me any holes to give me any confidence and make it easy for me. I had to work for it. And since he made me work for it, I didn't get as many good shots.

He's a very, very good player. When he wants to hit it long, he just bombs it out there. He's got great hands and putts very well. I don't think he missed a whole lot of putts he had to make, maybe one.

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

I wouldn't encourage him to pick himself, but I would love for him to make it.

What teammate can best handle the pressure of being paired with the finest player in the world and one of the greatest of all time, Woods And, if you think that is intimidating, try playing with Fred Funk. There's a lot of pressure playing with him, ... because he's always in the fairway and you don't want to screw him up. If I'm with Fred Couples and I hit it in the woods, 'Hey, go find it, buddy.' I'll do better next time.

People just don't understand how we battle and how hard we try to win,

It was the first time I ever played with him, ... I was maybe a sophomore in college. It was me and Jackie against Jack and another teammate. I was nervous as I could be.

That the only hole that doesn't make a lot of sense. If you miss the fairway by like 4 feet, it becomes a (par) 6.

I'm digging balls out of the rough that I wasn't able to and I'm hitting drives powerfully at the end of a round like I couldn't last year. I've been remarkably calm.

When I looked up and saw his face, I knew he thought he hadn't said it was good, ... It was my fault. That's the way it goes. He handled it real well.

The course was there. If you hit it in the fairways and could putt well, you could do well today.

That's really all that's left for me. This time of the year, everybody is playing for something. I'm just trying to get a win.

It will be a tough match this afternoon. Geoff has played some great golf this week and came in today on a roll. Somebody has to grab some momentum and make some birdies.

More than fine, if you ask the current crop of Tour professionals. It's Pete Dye at his best, ... He made a course that's intimidating and challenging and makes you put a lot of thought into playing it.

Changing the format is a great idea, having a new product is a great idea, and ending in a playoff is a great idea. We want a hotly contested final end of the season that grabs everyone's attention and people really want to watch.

These courses suit a guy whose short game is very good and who is very patient with the greens and the putting. Anybody with a good attitude who hits the ball in the fairway enough, and makes some putts, can win.

When you've got a day like today, you have to shoot a good score and not put yourself behind.

Riviera Country Club might be one of the crown jewels of courses on the PGA Tour, but because of a revamped West Coast swing, it's no longer a must-play for some top players. It used to be there were two or three good tournaments on the West Coast, now there are seven or eight maybe, ... In the old days, you would play Pebble and Riviera and just throw another one or two in there.

I had tears in my eyes. He wanted so bad to play and Jack picked him (as a captain's choice). That gave him a lot of confidence. I'm just thrilled for Freddie. He's one of my best friends and he played great.

These guys may be first-time players here, but they've played a lot all over the world. They come off the NIKE Tour and the European Tour, and they're tough. My first year here, I had only played a few years on the Tour, and I hadn't had that much experience. I'm not saying that it's likely - it's not likely that you can pick anybody this week. There are some guys playing well coming in, but it's hard to pick.''

I've watched five or six captains that have tried to play and Tom knows what is going on and what is ahead for him. He's learned that it is a lot more work than people think and he's gotten ahead of it. Whether it is picking out the clothes or organizing the structure to do the things that he wants to do, he realizes that he needs to get it done. He's ahead of that so now he can take some time and play some golf.

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

I enjoyed playing with them. Out here, it was a little more like a circus. It's like playing with Elvis being out here with Daly.

I had to start trying to make birdies again coming down the stretch just to get a cushion and I finally got one at No. 16,

She shot 68 in a PGA Tour event, that's an incredible accomplishment,

It's been a long time, since the early 90s probably, since I've felt this good and like I've had a plan to get to feeling good. In the past it's been, 'I feel good this week, but what's it going to feel like next week' Now, I think I'll feel good as long as I stick with this game plan.

We'll take today over the last two days, when the wind blew like crazy. Obviously we got off to a good start... and took advantage of the softer greens.

There's a group of us that really want to make the team and to win for Jack. He deserves a Presidents Cup win after going around the world twice and not getting one.

He's got a loss and a tie, and we'd certainly like to get him a win. You see the effort all of these captains have put into it, and we certainly want them to have a win, because it's not a whole lot of fun when you lose. Tying is about the same. S,o hopefully, we can get him a win.

We're playing for the P.G.A. tomorrow, so friendship is aside. But it'll be a good day.

When the wind is switching back and forth a little bit, it's just hard to hit every fairway. That's the only way to make this course play easy - hit every fairway.

You know, it was disappointing for Jack to have not gotten a win in one of these type of events. Hopefully, we can make up for that.