Fairway Quotes

You've got to hit the fairway... but at the same time, you've got to putt well. The guy that putts well is going to win the golf tournament. - Vijay Singh

You were constantly laying back to a distance where you didn't have to deal with that narrow part of the fairway. It was more about who was playing the most intelligent off of the tee, and I think the teams that decided to play aggressively were actually penalized for that significantly. - Mark Baldwin

You see a lot of bad golf shots. I was playing with a guy once who took a wild swing with a 3-wood or something, and he hit the ground behind the ball and the divot flapped over the ball. He stood there looking down the fairway, and we were on the ground laughing because his ball was underneath the divot, and he didn't even know that he did not hit the ball. - Peter Jacobsen

You might miss three fairways the whole day, but you can't advance it more than 30 or 40 yards. - Ben Curtis

You look at that fairway and the wind is blowing. You wonder, 'Where can this ball go?' I've got to hit it totally straight. - Annika Sorenstam

You know, it was a day for battling, and I really battled. I started out great, just striped it the first five or six holes, then missed a few fairways by a yard. It seems every time you miss by a yard, you're stone dead. Every time I was, it was a chip out. But I managed to get pars. - Paul McGinley

You hit it in the rough and I would say from any more than 150 yards out you are not going to be able to get to the greens. Fairway is premium this week. The greens are sneaky quick. You get on the wrong side and they can be really fast. It's playing tough. - Chris DiMarco

You have to really drive your ball straight here. Nobody who hits it off the fairway is going to play well this week. You have to hit it straight, you have to hit it below the hole. The greens are fast and it's just a classic golf course. It's a very fair course, but it's just tough. - Andrew Magee

You have to put the ball on the fairway. You are not going to be able to get really aggressive. You need to be defensive on a course this difficult. - Steve Desimone

You have to let it happen and not think about what it might mean. The only time you want to be thinking about it is if you have a three-shot lead walking down the 18th fairway on Sunday. - D.J. Trahan