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"Believe you're good enough. Part of breaking 90 is to believe that you are allowed to take it seriously."
"Get it on the green. Forget the pin. We want middle of the green."
"You want to go from the putting green back to the tee because that's when you play most of your shots."
"Your path-free strategy is crucial if you want to break 90."
"My whole plan was if I got a putt that was really long that I would just take a shot at Fireball and use the putter."
"He is putting himself in a position off the tee where eagle becomes potential."
"Paul's gonna take the box going into the back nine three under."
"Three to four under on the back nines totally manageable. Sure, totally manageable but what I'm saying is we're seeing courses where people are able to go on seven to six hole birdie streaks."
"So we can use different length backswings to control the distance of our wedge shots."
"The secret to lower scores is not more birdies. It's less bogeys and less nonsense."
"If you can eradicate those real high numbers, you don't need loads of birdies. You just need to stop the high numbers."
"You're never gonna go far wrong if you're left of the fairway."
"The Old Course is on a very flat piece of land but it's not flat at all and these contours dictate your entire strategy."
"I need to stop this hemorrhaging of bogies at the moment. I need to look at picking up a par or two instead of the shipping."
"It's in that circle of trust, good effort there. Should have a good look at birdie." - Dennis
"This is normal. Normally you take three to get to the green."
"You have to start under par at this course."
"I'm not a power player, so I hit fairways, leave myself good yardages, and make putts, and if I can do all that stuff and have a smile on my face, then it's a good day."
"I'm just going at the left side of the green. Let the wind do the work."
"You need a good strategy to set yourself up for success and that starts before you even pull a club from the bag."
"Play One Shot shape off the tee even if the hole goes left and you play a cut, play your cut."
"I rarely hit anything past an 8-iron full swing. I never hit a 60 full on unless I'm in the rough and I need crazy spin. 56 or 52. I don't need them. That's why I have three. I can always club up and make an easier swing and be more consistent, right?"
"This opportunity, imagine, imagine a blistering fast fringe cut here to where now your ball continues to roll, continues to roll."
"Even if you end up in the rough on the left, it's going to be okay."
"Take some of your time and focus out of areas where it doesn't necessarily have to be so you can get more spin and ultimately play better golf."
"Get rid of three putts. It's going to smash you below 80 more than you realize."
"It's always what you want to start the round, get your birdie."
"Being able to get up and down in as few strokes as possible saves a lot of strokes in the long run."
"I think it's easier to forget your mistakes and focus on one shot at a time."
"Once you start to believe in yourself, you start to have confidence, you start to understand how to manage a course, you start to understand how to play your game."
"Golf is really about managing your bad shots and getting yourself around the course."
"You get 14 clubs for a reason; each one of them needs to have a purpose, every one of them needs to do a job."
"Tee up on the left hand side for a draw, tee up on the right hand side for a fade; it allows you to have more of the fairway in play."
"If you're going to play good golf, you got to think about the holes you can score on."
"The secret to golf is just having one miss, not two. If we can eliminate the right side of the golf course, your scores will improve greatly."
"It's just safer to be on the green and give yourself a little two-putt and a makeable birdie chance."
"It's been a nice location today for players to use the slopes around the green to get the ball close to the hole."
"Keeping in the fairway and making putts, you know, distance doesn't matter as much as on other courses."
"If you have a bad hole, make a bogey, that's alright; find a way of not making a double."
"Avoiding those three putts is going to help lower your scores."
"Just focus on one shot at a time."
"Tiger Woods' incredible play around the greens has him in front by two."
"She worked so hard on her mental fortitude, it's one shot at a time."
"She's got the distance to get home in two, walk away with an eagle."
"That's what a competitor does, trying to save every shot possible out on the golf course."
"This hole is very easy to take a seven on; there's so much separation on this hole, it makes it one of the best par fives in the world."
"Match play helps a lot for you to not futurize too much and it really brings you back to the moment to the shot, the hole."
"What a round he is putting together."
"Very smart golf and just let the birdies come to him."
"You much rather miss on the high side than the low side."
"The object here is getting the ball close; if one does go in, it's a bonus."
"Making things as simple as you can with the short game to take error out of it."
"That's the perfect spot you want to be on that left side of the fairway."
"Make sure I'm aligned properly, make sure I have enough club to reach my target area, and make sure that I swing the club within my abilities."
"It's a proven fact that 65 percent of the game is played from 100 yards in."
"The most important shot in golf is the next one."
"Everything is important; if you don't drive well, you can't score. If you don't putt well, you can't score."
"It's not about making six birdies, it's about good shots one shot at a time, just handling the conditions."
"I just play high percentage golf."
"Always play your natural game because it's there, you know where the golf ball is going to go."
"It's all the other variables: aim, green reading, distance control, all that stuff is way more important than your putting stroke."
"I love to see players convert on holes like that where they just really put together some nice shots."
"High launch, low spin, if you can, will go significantly further."
"I'm gonna hit a nice just a normal ball flight, normal trajectory, let it pitch on the front edge of the green just release up into the middle there."
"It is time to ask that question which many golfers will ask over the course of their golfing lives: what's more important off the tee, distance or accuracy?"
"We need this to be at least checking on the first bounce, just to control that release of the ball."
"That's pretty impressive. It's a great leave."
"Short game is everything in golf."
"It's more what I want to see the ball do, how I visualize the shot, that's got to play into the outcome."
"I like having plenty of ammo and coming back with my approaches."
"We aim for the shot shape, but if it doesn't go the shot shape, it goes straight, we have a good shot."
"The best golfers in the world know exactly where wrong is, and then they're trying to fine-tune into where correct is."
"It's a great way of improving from the rough."