Payne Stewart
Payne Stewart
William Payne Stewartwas an American professional golfer who won eleven PGA Tour events, including three major championships in his career, the last of which occurred a few months before he died in an airplane accident at the age of 42...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth30 January 1957
CitySpringfield, MO
CountryUnited States of America
american-athlete crutch instead using wearing
I was wearing a back brace for a while. It started in '91 at the Open. It got to where I was using the back brace as a crutch instead of working out.
greens hit lee played regulation six standing today yesterday
I told you all yesterday that if I went out today and played Payne Stewart's game, I'd be standing here with the trophy. But I didn't do that. I hit six fairways in regulation today; Lee hit 11. I hit 10 greens in regulation; Lee hit 14. Bingo. That's why I didn't win.
friend game introduced next
He was an important part of my life. He introduced me to the game at 4, and for the next 24 years, he was my coach. But more importantly, he was my friend and inspiration.
golf hands games
But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.
attitude golf swings
A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.
sports football golf
Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
sports years trying
Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.
prime prime-time
I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.
golf thinking people
If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
golf one-day height
Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.
sports team thinking
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.
sports thinking rope
I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.
sports thinking play
For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.
winning guy down-and
These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.