Davis III Quotations

When you've got a day like today, you have to shoot a good score and not put yourself behind.

When you've got a day like today when the scoring is good, you have to shoot a good score and not put yourself behind. It's not a good course to catch up on, because it's going to get harder and harder every day. It's nice to get off to a good start.

What a beautiful shot he hit on 11. I'm standing with a five-iron thinking of hitting it close and he hits it stiff. And now I'm grinding to hit it close rather than just trying to hit a good shot. That's where you win matches, with shots like that.

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

We're playing for the P.G.A. tomorrow, so friendship is aside. But it'll be a good day.

When I looked up and saw his face, I knew he thought he hadn't said it was good, ... It was my fault. That's the way it goes. He handled it real well.

Last year was a big building block for me, getting back to playing a full schedule.

She shot 68 in a PGA Tour event, that's an incredible accomplishment,

Obviously, we were playing for Jack Nicklaus this week after the kind of year he's had,

Next year will be great. There will be those four tournaments that I know I want to play.

I was right back to work the middle of the day Monday, in the gym, and practiced yesterday with no lingering effects from last week. And that's a major step for me, that I'm feeling better, I'm stronger.

I wouldn't encourage him to pick himself, but I would love for him to make it. Certainly he's got major-championship-type game. We've seen him there a bunch in majors. If he gets on a roll and gets a bunch of points and has a couple good majors, we want him on the team.

I wouldn't encourage him to pick himself, but I would love for him to make it.

I got my game back in shape, got some good experience, a lot of rounds, and I had a chance to win. So it was a good swing, and I'm ready for Florida now.

I'm aiming 20 feet left of the pin and I hit it 20 feet right of the green. That was the one that killed me because I had a little bit of momentum.

I feel like if I can just stay out of my own way that I'm going to win pretty soon.

I did everything good except for five or six iron shots, really.

I don't think anybody is really worried about the lead yet, ... This golf course will bite you if you don't pay attention to what you're doing, so keep playing one shot at a time.

If a kid in high school or college came to me and asked, 'What do I do to get better that you didn't do?' I'd tell him I missed out on a lot of the fitness wave that's so obvious out here now. The majority of players are doing it, but when I first got out, no one was.

I enjoyed playing with them. Out here, it was a little more like a circus. It's like playing with Elvis being out here with Daly.

He had a couple good holes, then I had a couple good holes, then he gave me a couple holes. It was typical match play.

He's a very gritty player ? perfect for match play. I hope he's on our Ryder Cup team because he certainly knows how to play match play and play under pressure.

Hockey said, 'We've got to come up with a way that this will work.' Every sport's done it. NASCAR did it, ... How are we going to grow to the next level? How do we get TV excited about this? That's what we're doing.

He's a very, very good player. When he wants to hit it long, he just bombs it out there. He's got great hands and putts very well. I don't think he missed a whole lot of putts he had to make, maybe one.

I always felt like I took the pressure off of him when he hit a bad shot or when he hit a good shot. And I just didn't hit enough good iron shots.

I always felt like I took the pressure off him.

He kept the pressure on me. He didn't give me any holes to give me any confidence and make it easy for me. I had to work for it. And since he made me work for it, I didn't get as many good shots.

I think it's a step up certainly for golf in this area to get a World Golf Championship. You know, guys will move out of the top and new guys will take their place. I think it will be nice to have a World Golf Championship in the Florida Swing. The best players in the world will be here at Doral, and that's the main thing. It will give guys an incentive to make it here.

I think the home course helps a lot and its right in the middle of a lot of big tournaments for us.

I was driving it good and I was trying to do things with it to try to keep it in the fairway, and I think that was the difference. I just didn't shape the ball real well off the tee like I wanted to.

I was watching him hit a few drives in front of me and I said, 'Boy, he's swinging good,' ... And I go out there and look on the board and say, 'Oh, yeah, he's scoring good, too.'

I saw the club head at the top of Love's golf swing and you could almost do chin-ups on it.

People just don't understand how we battle and how hard we try to win,

My trainer has me on a program that I like, and I can see results. That's the big thing. If you went out and hit drivers every day and never got any better at it, you'd lose interest. I can see results, and I'm excited about it and am getting better and better.

Match play you've got to keep your man down or keep him thinking you're not really going to give him a chance.

I think everybody is happy in Florida. Everybody has improved, and that's the thing we've been trying to tell the other players - that the whole new system has made everything better.

It determines who's thinking the best, who's the most patient, who's more determined.

That's what happens when you miss every fairway and every putt. You shoot a big number.

I wasn't expecting 8 under. I wasn't expecting 6 under.

Whether he was kidding or not, ... Tiger Woods wouldn't say it. Jack Nicklaus wouldn't say it.

Tiger Woods wouldn't say that, Jack Nicklaus wouldn't say that. That probably motivated some guys. I'm sure Freddie was motivated when he heard it.

You know, it was disappointing for Jack to have not gotten a win in one of these type of events. Hopefully, we can make up for that.

When the wind is switching back and forth a little bit, it's just hard to hit every fairway. That's the only way to make this course play easy - hit every fairway.

When I get up there, I say, 'This hole has always been good to me,' rather than going, 'It's hard to hit this green.' I'm thinking positive thoughts. When you have a place where you're comfortable, it makes it easier. I feel good everywhere on this course.

We'll take today over the (previous) two days, when the wind blew like crazy. It was a little easier to play.

We'll take today over the last two days, when the wind blew like crazy. Obviously we got off to a good start... and took advantage of the softer greens.

You have to be patient and keep grinding. I think I knew that in 2004. I just didn't apply it very well.

When you get all the best players in one place, it's more likely that they're going to win.

But I've been hitting the ball better and better every week.

This team has been playing together for a long time. We fit together, we have fun together. But we were playing for Jack Nicklaus.

You have to hit fairways and greens, ... It?s key for me to get off to a good start. If you get it rolling, it?s not that hard. But if you?re trying to get up-and-down on every hole, it starts to look impossible.

We just go out and play our games and have fun. . . . I think just knowing each other real well makes it a lot easier.

We were playing for Jack. The longer you're around him, the more you realize how special it is to him.

Everyone who comes here thinks they have a chance. You have to do everything well. You can't just drive it well. You have to putt it well ... you have to do it all.

There's a group of us that really want to make the team and to win for Jack. He deserves a Presidents Cup win after going around the world twice and not getting one.

I've watched five or six captains that have tried to play and Tom knows what is going on and what is ahead for him. He's learned that it is a lot more work than people think and he's gotten ahead of it. Whether it is picking out the clothes or organizing the structure to do the things that he wants to do, he realizes that he needs to get it done. He's ahead of that so now he can take some time and play some golf.

These courses suit a guy whose short game is very good and who is very patient with the greens and the putting. Anybody with a good attitude who hits the ball in the fairway enough, and makes some putts, can win.

I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.

After being 4-under through nine, it wasn't going to come off.

That the only hole that doesn't make a lot of sense. If you miss the fairway by like 4 feet, it becomes a (par) 6.

You see the effort they put into it, ... and to have them do it three times, we certainly want them to have a win. All of us have seen both sides of it, too. It's not a whole lot of fun when you lose, and tying is about the same.

You see that in match play, and that's why we don't do it every week. It's a little too volatile to do it every week.

All you've got to do is relax and play, and sometimes that's hard to do. You know, we say, well, if you just get out of your own way at the majors, you could win a lot more, and sometimes it's easier said than done. Sometimes it's different pressure with different people.

They played very difficult coming in. I mean you had to kill it off 17 just to be able to get your short club to the green on your third shot.

The year he's had has been very emotional.

There will be just as many rounds of golf in '07 as in '06, ... A lot of players think tournaments are going to get canceled. We'll have just as many tournaments, just a different order.

It seems like every time he gets close, he has another bad tournament. It's hard for all of us to imagine playing great, and it's also hard to imagine when you're playing great to be playing bad again.

It was the first time I ever played with him, ... I was maybe a sophomore in college. It was me and Jackie against Jack and another teammate. I was nervous as I could be.

It was the first time I ever played with him, ... It was me and Jackie against Jack and another teammate. I was nervous as I could be.

It's a little bit of a sigh of relief that you've got the pressure off a little bit,

It's always better not to run up against the world No. 1. But Geoff Ogilvy is playing great. ... I'm not wishing Tiger was here; I'd love to play him again, though.

It's hard to keep them interested. You look at NASCAR. I'm a NASCAR fan, so to me (a points system) was a drastic, drastic change. I didn't like it. I didn't want them to change. But sometimes staying the same is not good. I like what they're doing. It's meant to have an exciting conclusion to the season. It's not just going to be one event. It's going to be a series.

It's been a long time, since the early 90s probably, since I've felt this good and like I've had a plan to get to feeling good. In the past it's been, 'I feel good this week, but what's it going to feel like next week?' Now, I think I'll feel good as long as I stick with this game plan.

That's really all that's left for me. This time of the year, everybody is playing for something. I'm just trying to get a win.

That just shows he's got a lot of guts and determination; he's not going to ever give up.

Everybody wants to play with him. Everybody gets a turn.

It just shows you how many good players we have out here.

It was my fault, I thought I heard him say 'good'.

It was one of those days. When I hit a bad shot, I never got away with it.

I want to play my way out of having them pick me to be Ryder Cup captain. I want to be in the top five and they don't even consider me.

I want to build a course my mom can enjoy.

It was a difficult day. It was hard to control the ball and then it quit raining, but it got cold. My hands got cold and the ball didn't want to go anywhere.

It will be a tough match this afternoon. Geoff has played some great golf this week and came in today on a roll. Somebody has to grab some momentum and make some birdies.

The kids had macaroni and chicken fingers, and that was looking pretty good. We didn't get any.

I'm digging balls out of the rough that I wasn't able to and I'm hitting drives powerfully at the end of a round like I couldn't last year. I've been remarkably calm.

I'm feeling better, hitting better, and my golf swing is right on track. I'm doing the things that I have to do to play better, and I'm excited about the year.

I had to start trying to make birdies again coming down the stretch just to get a cushion and I finally got one at No. 16,

I had tears in my eyes. He wanted so bad to play and Jack picked him (as a captain's choice). That gave him a lot of confidence. I'm just thrilled for Freddie. He's one of my best friends and he played great.

I'm not wishing Tiger was here. I'd love to play him again, though.

If you put the ball in the fairway, there's a few birdie holes out there. But it's a tournament where you know you're going to play four rounds, and you're going to grind it out. ... It's kind of like a mini-major. It plays very tough, and it gets harder as it goes along, and the scores don't seem to get too much lower unless it's weather related.

I remember playing practice rounds with him in 2000, and he'd hit these drives and you'd say, 'Wow, that is so far and so straight,' ... You never say that anymore. It was frightening playing with him then. In the last year and a half or so I'm driving it right with him.

I hit driver and 1-iron to 20 feet and made eagle.

I hit the ball in the fairway a bunch and that certainly helped. I'm feeling confident with the putter. Zach didn't put a whole lot of pressure on me, but he did play solid. I stayed just ahead of him.

I haven't won, but I think I made a lot of progress physically last year. I got to feeling better and better and contending more and more.

If you were in the fairway, the course played OK. And if you weren't, it played tough.

I don't think it adds up to 7,400 yards. You've got 17 and 18 that are 1,200 yards, and 6 and 7 are 1,000 yards.

I didn't hit enough good iron shots when I had to, and Geoff did. And when he didn't he hit a great pitch or bunker shot, or great putt to stay right in it.

Changing the format is a great idea, having a new product is a great idea, and ending in a playoff is a great idea. We want a hotly contested final end of the season that grabs everyone's attention and people really want to watch.

If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius,

If he loses a bunch of holes, he won't be pumping his fist.