Paul Azinger
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Paul Azinger
Paul William Azingeris an American professional golfer and TV golf analyst. He spent almost 300 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 1988 and 1994...
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth6 January 1960
CityHolyoke, MA
conversation grip hatchet homemade player quoted saying
He was quoted as saying I had a homemade grip and a hatchet swing. I was quoted as saying he's the slowest player on earth, but in all those years, I'd never had a conversation with him. Who has?
greens takes
The greens for the first time, really all year, are going to be firm. That takes a little getting used to.
history loyalty plug pull sam telling tour tournament won
Greensboro's got too much history for the Tour to pull out, ... You're telling me you're going to pull the plug on a tournament that's been around for as long as this one has? That Sam Snead won (eight) times? I'd like to think the PGA has some loyalty and better sense than that.
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They turned it around and got it headed back toward the lake. It was headed for the crowd to chew on a youngster.
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I don't hate it as much today (Thursday) as I did yesterday (when the pro-am was played in strong winds). We players fuss and moan and complain that all the courses on Tour are the same and when somebody finally builds something different like this, what do we do? We fuss and moan and complain.
players wish
But when those players get in the room, they're already outnumbered 5-4. I wish the players had a little more say.
fastball guys seen since
He'll probably be effective, because those guys haven't seen a 68-mph fastball since Little League.
lifetime nervous nickel
I've never made a nickel in my lifetime where I wasn't a little nervous getting it.
figure guy head release stuff
It's just experience. There's not a whole lot you can tell a guy shorten his follow-through, or release the head more, stuff like that. You've got to kind of figure it out on your own.
golf thinking games
Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.
know-how knows
I didn't even know how to shave at 15.