Famous Quotes & Sayings

The fact that people were actually talking about nuclear- bunker busting for the first time is what scared people. This is going to drag on for months and months and months.

Because of the history of the Old Course, moving hazards is not the option it would be at many other places, ... You can't simply move a bunker here and there on The Old Course. All that leaves is to move tees.

Annika Sorenstam

I finished good down the stretch today, as I did yesterday. (On No. 18), I had to get it up and hope it landed softly. I've been working a lot on my bunker shots this winter, so I feel good about it. ... It would have been really hard if I were in the rough. I was glad I was in the bunker.

I always think of that bunker shot on the 10th. Sure. It was the tee shot I wanted to forget, and a bunker shot I want to remember. But they were good memories. I had a chance to win.

Luke Donald

If we're playing into the wind, that's a very small green to be hitting a mid-iron into. In some cases, I can see playing for the front bunker and trying to get up and down (for par) if I have to hit a long iron there.

Bill Buford

Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.

Alex Steffen

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

That bunker shot went in and I've been four feet off the ground ever since,

We're still monitoring the Bunker Hill Road situation. We want to make sure Hereford students and motorists are safe.

My bunker shot was made easier when Jim didn't hit it close. If I just hit it on the green, I win the tournament.

Chad Campbell

The 6-iron I hit out of the bunker was what saved the whole day. To be able to hit that shot, make the putt and go to the next hole, hit it right down the middle and make a birdie, two birdies in a row.

Jay Haas

I was playing with this guy one time, and he was shooting a hundred and fifty, probably. We got to the last hole, and it took him about seven to get to a bunker on the green. Then he picked a leaf up right by his ball, in the bunker, which is a two-stroke penalty. Then he was leaning on his sand wedge in the bunker, grounding his club, so there's another two-stroke penalty, so he was 11. And then he hit that one about a foot in front of him in 12, and then he got that on to about 8 feet and made the putt. So he makes his putt, and I say, 'Joe, great putt. Is that a 4?' And he goes, 'Oh, no. Six.' It was really like a 14 or something.

It was feast or famine. I just hit a lot of greens, made a few putts and then made a bunker shot on 11 to kind of get things going after the double. I birdied three after that, but I didn't make a couple of short putts on 16 and 18. However, you can't be disappointed with 65 around here.

Annika Sorenstam

I wanted to get close to the pin without putting the bunker in play. All of a sudden he just kept talking about a straight shot. I don't know how many times you hit a straight shot in golf. It's very seldom. You either work it right to left or left to right, depending on the pin.

Mark Calcavecchia

Tee-to-green, I'm streaky, but I'm still very good at times, ... My short game, as far as bunker and chipping, is still pretty good.

We had to bunker in and execute on set plays. But we did, and I'm happy we were able to win in an overtime situation.

Karen Finney

The vice president's secrecy on this and other issues, as well as his numerous false statements concerning pre-war intelligence, is part of a larger pattern of above-the-law, bunker mentality that the Bush administration has embraced.

It wasn't a bunker shot you say, 'Hey, let's make this one,'

It wasn't a bunker shot I walked up to and said, 'Hey, let's make this one,' ... It was one of those, 'Let's get it close and get out of here.' It was my time. That's all there is to it.

In Washington, a program is never 'stake-through-the-heart' dead, but it's safe to say that the nuclear bunker buster is dead for at least three years.

If I'd gone 0 for 3 on bunker shots coming home, I'd have been disappointed.

I completely disagree. The Road Hole bunker has never been the same from one Open to the next. To say it has been ruined from what it was is completely false. I think that bunker has improved from what it was.

I needed it, ... I didn't make anything until a 13-footer at No. 9, then threw that away with a three-putt at the 10th where I missed the hole from 2 feet. Then I birdied 13 and 15 but missed from 8 feet after hitting a great bunker shot at 16. It was disappointing to keep giving shots right back.

I hit a really good shot on the green out of the fairway bunker then made that putt. After that I thought that maybe it could be my day.

Tiger Woods

I hit two really nice shots and then just chickened out on a bunker shot and left it way short. I wasn't in position to make birdie, and he was. And I made the putt and he didn't. All of a sudden, it looked from potentially going back to 2 up for him ... now we're all square.

I have to give that to lack of knowledge of the golf course. For some reason, I think that right side that you can get to that far bunker out there. I'm not long enough to get to that bunker. I tried to take a little more off than I can chew. I thought it was going to fly into the bunker and it didn't even get close.

I didn't hit enough good iron shots when I had to, and Geoff did. And when he didn't he hit a great pitch or bunker shot, or great putt to stay right in it.

Peter Jacobsen

You could bury three elephants in that bunker. I think Nicklaus designed that bunker at night.