Justin Leonard
Justin Leonard
Justin Charles Garrett Leonardis an American professional golfer...
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth15 June 1972
CityDallas, TX
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A couple of the greens are a little severe I think, but everybody's going to have to get through those holes. The golf course should be more difficult than last year.
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The third green is pretty severe for a 245-yard par 3. The right side of the green goes up and down. It looks like something I skied down a coupled of months ago.
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You've always got to beware of that wounded dog, and when you've got two of them, you've just really got to beware.
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I tend to learn more in failure than I do in success,
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I think that being around and meeting a lot of their people at Nike, getting into the new equipment and all those things kind of renewed my energy a little bit. I think that's the reason I got off to such a great start in '05, because I was so excited to play and eager to prove to Nike that they made a good decision.
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Memories like that help. We all have something like that we can pull upon. Maybe not in a match-play situation, but in some kind of tournament where you did something that maybe you weren't sure you would be able to pull it off. That can become infectious.
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I'm very motivated to play the Presidents Cup. I think when I look at my schedule and all the tournaments I'm not going to play here in the next couple of months, it sets up pretty well as far as getting ready to play.
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It would be a lot of fun to win here because of those near misses. Although they seem like quite a while ago, it would be special to win in front of this many fans.
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I've loosened up on the golf course, and I enjoy playing at the Hope. I've been in the celebrity rotation since I started playing.
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Guys are little more relaxed here, ... You don't have the media buildup. The intensity is there, but for whatever reason the pressure is different. This event, you don't think about it until you get here. With the Ryder Cup, six months out people start talking about this and that. The next thing you know is we're all white-knuckled.
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It is long overdue for me to come back here and play. Playing here three or four years ago in an exhibition before the course opened I knew that I liked the course and I've just been meaning to come back.
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I spent a lot of time working on my game, adjusting to the new equipment. I found that I got back some excitement that maybe I had been missing the last few years.
golf goal want
I have those (goals) written down, but don't want to discuss them. Right now, I just want to keep on improving.