Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was perfect conditions. The pins were tough, but I hit good shots and I gave myself birdie opportunities.

It was good to get on a birdie train for a while. It was a lot of fun.

Annika Sorenstam

It was just one of those days. I am happy with the way I am playing, I just couldn't get it together today. I'm just glad I made birdie on the last hole. Hopefully I can turn it around.

It was an OK round. It could have been so much better. I missed a lot of birdie putts. I gave myself a lot of chances and just couldn't sink them but it happens.

It was a good solid start. We played a good front nine, being even par. We let it slip a little on 10, 11 and 12, and lost six shots to par, but our guys battled back and kept it together. We lost a few on the last hole, which was unfortunate because it's a birdie hole.

Retief Goosen

It was a good solid round. My driving (was the only frustration). By not having good drives, it's difficult to have birdie chances.

Loren Roberts

When you're putting well, it really does take a lot of pressure off your game. It's not the birdie putts that are key. On tough days like this, the par putts that are key.

David Howell

A birdie at the 10th really settled the nerves.

Thongchai Jaidee

It's okay, I'm still happy. Charlie was very good with a really good score. I shot 66 which wasn't good enough, I guess. I had birdie chances on the last two holes but didn't make them.

Luke Donald

It's obviously not the start I wanted, but I knew there were a lot of birdie holes out there.

Chad Campbell

I tried to hang in there for a little while. It catches up with you. One birdie on Sunday isn't going to do it.

Fred Funk

It was one of those things where you are thinking you have to do more than you have to coming down the back nine. I tried some shots a little too aggressively and paid the price, made some bogeys. All of a sudden I lost the lead. I did birdie the last two holes, but it was too late at that point.

It was certainly another strong match for D.J.. Sage finished with a birdie to shoot a 79. He shot a 37 on the backside. It's starting to come together for the team.

Richard Greene

It was a working-class sort of a day. Things were not happening on the front nine but I managed to birdie the last two and eked out a decent score.

Rory Sabbatini

It's a course that really can give a lot, but it can take it away in a blink. If you do have a birdie putt, really try to make some out there and capitalize on the situations because it kind of alleviates that stress on you.

When we have that many birdie opportunities we really have to make the most of them. That's kind of been our focus finishing out the fall, and obviously for the spring, is that when you have an opportunity, capitalize on it.

Tom Lehman

And the next hole, David drove it in the thick stuff and I made a nice birdie to go 2-up. And then it was 1-up and it was 2-up and he made some mistakes, and I got the match.

Michelle Wie

It was very important for me to make that putt and I'm very glad that I did. That helped me a lot with momentum, making birdie on the next hole and makes me feel good about my round.

Davis Love

It was tough, real windy. We couldn't get enough birdie putts. It was hard to hit it in the fairway, hard to hit it close.

Brett Keisel

That's what I've heard, that I'm the priority. A little birdie told me that, but birds can bring all kinds of different messages, so who knows?

James Wolcott

You're sitting there having breakfast at the St. Regis with Scooter Aspen, buttering each other's toast, and somehow the name 'Valerie Flame' pops up in your notebook without you knowing how it got there! It's your handwriting, sure enough, but rack your brain much as you will, you just can't remember which little birdie tweeted that name into your ear.

To be honest with you, I had a couple of good up and downs for par towards the middle part there when the wind got a little bit swirly. So making pars was good. Then the birdie at the last and not making any bogeys was key.

We need to make some birdies today. Our birdie conversion rate was not very high.

Obviously, the scores are real low. And the good news for me is I have to go out and play a really good round tomorrow. There's no holding on here. It's go out and be aggressive, stick to the game plan, give myself as many birdie opportunities as I can and hopefully I can convert them.

Retief Goosen

On the front nine I never really did anything. All of my birdie putts were really too far away to make anything,

Ben Hogan

If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

I was swinging really well on the front nine. I was hitting it really close to the hole and was feeling it. I can't remember a tournament tapping in and knocking in 2- or 3-footers for birdie as often as I have here. That's always nice.

I would have sold out for a birdie in a heartbeat. It's not important to lead the first day. I don't think it would have made much difference if I didn't make it.

I got off to good starts (both rounds). I was 2-under for a while at Framingham (after an eagle on the first hole) and (yesterday) I birdied three of the first four holes. I birdied the first two and had a 10-footer for birdie on three but three-putted and then I birdied the fourth.

She's playing with a heart full of love for her mom. The kid's got this in her, but I think this is more about God doing something for our lives right now. We walk out of our house this morning and see a rainbow. Then a birdie on the first hole. Come on. There's something else going on here.

Mark Calcavecchia

Somebody is going to have to find out when the last time somebody won a tournament making one birdie on the weekend. That may have never happened before in the history of golf.

I feel like I can birdie every hole right now. Maybe I'll have a 61 or 62 in me tomorrow. We'll see.

Paula Creamer

I feel great. I knew I had to play good golf coming down the stretch. I knew if I just stayed patient and kept giving myself birdie looks everything would be OK.