Steve Timms Quotations

In the last few weeks, many of Dick's students have spoken about how he gave life lessons mixed in with his golf instruction. That is what The First Tee is all about.

We've got to get the golf course exposed to the players. We're going to do that this year.

You're not going to get a 100 percent vote of confidence. It's also 11 months away, so we'll see. Some things can change.

We can't imagine a better anniversary present than this. Especially since the tournament is making its debut this week on the new Tournament Course at Redstone Golf Club, which was designed specifically to host the Shell Houston Open.

He's one of our icons in Houston. He's done so much for so many people. It's such a huge, huge loss. He's had such a big impact on golf at all levels. It's just devastating.

Who's going to be the needle mover in 2008, 2009, 2012? We can't think that short term. We have to think long term. If we would have thought short term, we would not have moved. We're going to continue to think long term. We're going to continue to think about how we can improve our product.