We All Would Like To Struggle Like

Any Golfer Worth His Salt Has To Cross The Sea And Try To Win The British Open.

Every Putt Is Different. Your Feet Dictate The Stroke By How They Feel On The Green. I Just Never Used The Same Stroke On Every Putt.

For Years, I Never Thought I Needed A Short Game. Finally I Just Decided To Do Something About It. I Needed To Get Up And Down From Tough Spots On The Par-5s For My Birdies. So I Went To Phil [rogers]. He's The Best. For The Last Couple Weeks, Phil Has Been Staying At My House And We've Been Practicing In The Evening.

I've Never Set Up Any Golf Course That Would Favor Anybody. I Try To Make It Exactly The Opposite, Which Is What We Did At Valhalla When We Modernized It To Accommodate The Lengths Players Are Hitting It Today.

I Never Hit A Shot, Not Even In Practice, Without Having A Very Sharp, In-focus Picture Of It In My Head. It's Like A Color Movie. First I 'see' Where I Want It To Finish, Nice And White And Sitting Up High On The Bright Green Grass. Then The Scene Quickly Changes And I 'see' The Ball Going There: Its Path, Trajectory, And Shape, Even Its Behavior On Landing. Then There Is This Sort Of Fadeout, And The Next Scene Shows Me Making The Kind Of Swing That Will Turn The Previous Images To Reality.