Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Tom

With it playing shorter, there are more birdie holes than when it's playing long. Because I'm not one of the longer hitters. I like the way it is playing now.

Stuart Appleby

The par-five I made a nice little five-foot birdie putt. That was a sneaky one down the hill. Then I chipped in from over the back of the green on six. It was a very difficult chip and it went in. That was a very fortunate shot there because I really was thinking four would be a good score to walk away with, so three was a bonus.

Thomas made birdie there and I thought, 'Here we go. It's down the stretch now'. But I've been in that position before and decided to just try and make my par at the last and let Thomas try and come at me. Fortunately it worked out.

Paula Creamer

We were really hot on the front nine but the back nine - we played it one over - was really frustrating because we gave ourselves a ton of birdie opportunities but couldn't convert.

Paula Creamer

We had a lot of birdie opportunities but you have to sink the putts and that is where we struggled.

Retief Goosen

On the front nine I never really did anything. All of my birdie putts were really too far away to make anything,

I saw what happened, yes, and I knew I needed a birdie at the 18th to catch him, but it wasn't to be.

Morgan Pressel

I screwed up in the middle. That's a birdie hole, so I feel like I gave three shots away.

When we have that many birdie opportunities we really have to make the most of them. That's kind of been our focus finishing out the fall, and obviously for the spring, is that when you have an opportunity, capitalize on it.

Tiger Woods

Once I got to the 11th green, I saw D.T. had made birdie at 10 and 11 and drew within one. I told Steve (Williams) that I needed to bury this putt and see if we can get some kind of cushion.

Ernie Els

It's not always that you're going to shoot a 29 in a major. You just want to keep grinding, keep playing. On the back nine I played pretty solid. I guess I just ran out of birdie holes.

Henrik Stenson

I kept on trying all the way and couldn't get close enough. And the greens are very tricky to read. ... Chris got off to a flying start, just kept it together and pretty much finished it off with a birdie on 16.

Graeme McDowell

I left my putts short on the ninth, 10th and 11th but the birdie on the 14th gave me something good to sleep on,

Mark Calcavecchia

I left a couple of strokes out there ... that's why making birdie on 18 really felt good, kind of making up for that,

Ben Crenshaw

I made a really pretty birdie at 10, hit a nice five iron in there to about 10 feet. I made a bomb at 16 that was about 50 feet. Then I got up and down at 17 from the front right bunker and 18, I got it up and down from short of the left bunker.

It was a good solid start. We played a good front nine, being even par. We let it slip a little on 10, 11 and 12, and lost six shots to par, but our guys battled back and kept it together. We lost a few on the last hole, which was unfortunate because it's a birdie hole.

Retief Goosen

It was a good solid round. My driving (was the only frustration). By not having good drives, it's difficult to have birdie chances.

It was perfect conditions. The pins were tough, but I hit good shots and I gave myself birdie opportunities.

It was good to get on a birdie train for a while. It was a lot of fun.

I hit my drives well. But I would just miss short birdie putts.

I hit a lovely shot into the 14th, the par five, to make birdie and then when I made the mistake on the 15th I was livid because I knew that was that in a way,

Jim McMahon

I played like a dog today. I had a two-foot putt on the second hole for birdie that didn't touch the hole. And it didn't get any better from there. ' I didn't putt real well today.

I really didn't ever have to work for a birdie. I think the longest birdie putt I made was probably 6 feet.

Mark Calcavecchia

I never thought I would say I won a tournament with my head, ... Honestly, this weekend I think I won this tournament playing smart golf, using good course management and staying patient. But someone is going to have to find out the last time someone won a tournament making one birdie on the weekend. That may not have happened before in the history of golf.

Bob Tway

I don't think I know the golf course all that well. It's the type of golf course where if you hit it well, the greens are going to stay receptive. They're going to stay soft and each round you can have a chance to make some birdies. ... If you can make a few by getting close enough and and birdie the par-5s, you'll be OK.

Bob Tway

I don't think I know the golf course all that well, ... If you can make a few by getting close enough and birdie the par-5s, you'll be OK.

Instead of 30 or 40 feet, I'm in there at 20 feet. When I hit a good shot, I'm inside 10 feet. I've hit a lot of greens this week but I've also hit it close a lot. Just a lot of good birdie chances.

Clayton was three-under on his first nine and two-over on his second and he left three birdie putts right on the lip. He said he just played differently the second nine. He played real solid, but the weather got worse. We had a real steady rain.

You've got to give him a lot of credit to birdie 17 like that. The wind was doing funny things, but he always finds a way.

E. O. Wilson

All of a sudden, it went in from everywhere. It was a tale of two nines. If I could have rolled in some birdie putts early and not made a silly bogey at 18, this could have been something real special. But I'm still happy with what it is.

This is a confidence boost. It took some time for me to create a birdie opportunity so I tried to play patiently early on the front nine.

Tom Lehman

And the next hole, David drove it in the thick stuff and I made a nice birdie to go 2-up. And then it was 1-up and it was 2-up and he made some mistakes, and I got the match.

David Howell

A birdie at the 10th really settled the nerves.