Charles Howell Golf Quotations

We're not out there hitting people and tackling people, but walking 36 holes on this golf course is not easy. I think it's just as important to physically stay strong as it is mentally.

With that green and the way the wind swirls in that corner of the golf course, playing that hole in even par over four days is going to be really good.

To be honest, I was a little bit disappointed with the changes in '02 because I wanted to play the same golf course everyone else had played and I couldn't. I wanted to play at least one Masters on the same course that Tiger (Woods) did what he did in '97 on.

Now, I like these changes. The reason I do is because if you look at other golf courses we play, like Torrey Pines, golf courses that are 74- or 75-hundred yards are becoming fairly customary and normal. I don't think you want to play a major championship on a golf course that is not in keeping with other courses we play on tour in terms of length.

It's probably one of the most important holes in this golf tournament.

Any time you take a golf course and completely overhaul it, you're going to get some mixed feelings. But now I think it's fine. I really do. There isn't one thing I saw at Augusta National that I haven't seen done everywhere else.

If you had never seen this golf course and didn't know what course you were playing, you would think, OK, this is fine. But if you see this from the perspective that Augusta is one of the most familiar courses in the world, you would look at the changes and say, 'Wow, this is going to make a big difference'.