Fairway Quotes

#1. If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.

Zach Johnson

#2. Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

Jack Nicklaus

#3. I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

Yani Tseng

#4. As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Ben Hogan

#5. When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.

Aaron Baddeley

#6. You probably don't hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.

Ernie Els

#7. may have gotten their mother killed. Mary had been right. We should screen clients before working for them. Through a line of pines, I could make out a golf club's fairway. Squeezing

James Patterson

#8. When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first instinct is probably to give it a little more power because you're worried about coming up short.

Ernie Els

#9. I almost never hit a shot all out, and I make a conscious effort to swing my long clubs just as I do my wedges. Keep this in mind when hitting your fairway woods.

Ernie Els

#10. It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.

Bill Paxton

#11. If you can hit your 3- and 5-woods with confidence from the fairway, par 5s become birdie opportunities, and 420-yard par 4s are a lot less scary.

Ernie Els

#12. Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.

Joseph Conrad

#13. Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.

Bob Hope

#14. Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

Henry Beard

#15. It was neat to see a plaque on the 18th fairway, and go up there and kind of look at the green and just remembering the moment,

Paula Creamer

#16. I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

Barry Lane

#17. Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.

Tom Watson

#18. The fourth tee brings out a mixture of excitement and anticipation, for about 220 yards down the fairway you catch a glimpse of Stillwater Cove, and realize you'll be walking along this spectacular meeting of land and sea for the next two hours.

Doug Ferguson

#19. If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

Tommy Bolt

#20. I'm sure you have a hole at your course where you love to hit the tee shot. You can't wait to get up there and bomb away because the fairway is wide, or the hole always plays downwind.

Ernie Els

#21. That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.

Colin Montgomerie

#22. I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

Johnny Miller

#23. In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

Lee Trevino

#24. Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

Jackie Gleason

#25. My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.

Jason Aldean

#26. I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour.

Ruben Blades

#27. Napoleon built his campaigns of iron and when one piece broke the whole structure collapsed. I made my campaigns using rope, and if a piece broke I tied a knot

Arthur Wellesley

#28. The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.

Nancy Pearcey

#30. What connection is there, President, between this uncanny creature and the disappearance of Lord Beltham, of which we were talking at dinner?

Mark Twain

#31. Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.

Mark McGrath

#32. It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of the Creator, as it is of Government to hold man in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support.

Thomas Paine

#33. There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

Barbara Stanwyck

#34. In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#35. I saw it, and I knew that he spoke the truth. I would always see it. I would see the spark of the Creator in every human life I ever encountered, and in every human life I took.

Anne Rice

#36. Yes, all the inhabitants of the store had left. But that didn't mean we were alone.

Jonathan Stroud

#37. Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Andrew Stanton

#38. Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

Paul Ruffin