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  • Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

    Golf   Men   Play  
  • Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

    Mean   Aunt   Doctors  
  • Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

    Hard Work   Golf   Player  
  • Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

    Play   Issues   Long  
  • Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.

    Couple   Golf   Games  
  • If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

    Golf   Ego   Throat  
  • I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way

    Fun   Golf   Play  
  • Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

    Aunt   Two   Feelings  
    Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.11, Xist Publishing
  • It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

  • I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

  • I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

  • Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

  • I remember what a thrill it was to attend my first Champions Dinner. Just being in the same room with some of the guys I had admired growing up and to be there because I had won The Masters was quite an honor. I still attend the dinner every year and it is one of the highlights of my time at Augusta during Masters week.

    Growing Up   Years   Guy  
    "Interview: Arnold Palmer talks Bay Hill, Rory McIlroy and the Masters". Interview with Ryan Ballengee, sports.yahoo.com. March 28, 2015.
  • There are a lot of great players from Europe who have never played Augusta, but all the guys in America have all played St. Andrews. They've gone over and made a trip to play St. Andrews.

    Player   America   Europe  
    Source: www.ign.com
  • John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

    Strong   Soil   Said  
    William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.244, Hayes Barton Press
  • If you let it, the Masters will play you instead of you playing it. Augusta National can pamper you right off the bottom of the leader board. Pampered before and after your round, but mentally and emotionally pulverized during them - that's the formula.

    Golf   Play   Leader  
  • I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

  • There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

    Golf   Thinking   Holes  
  • Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.

    Source: www.nicklaus.com
  • The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

    "Tiger Woods to return to golf at Masters". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2010.
  • If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?"

    "Even in the Best of Cities" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. February 06, 1994.
  • This will be my 54th trip to Augusta. I got $20,000 for winning the Masters. Now I get $10,000 to go there and eat a free steak.

    Winning   Steak   Masters  
  • I'm playing in the Masters. It's obviously very important to me, and I want to be there. I've worked a lot on my game and I'm looking forward to competing. I'm excited to get to Augusta and I appreciate everyone's support.

    "Tiger Woods is playing the Masters" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. April 3, 2015.
  • If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

    Golf   Heaven   Want  
  • I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned

    Humble   Pimp   Dry  
    Song: Paris Morton Music
  • The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

    Golf   Events   Fans  
    Skysports.com Interview, www.skysports.com. July 03, 2011.
  • My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.

    Running   Dope   People  
    Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies
  • Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.

    Fall   Golf   Tree  
  • They don't cut the greens here at Augusta. they use bikini wax.

    Cutting   Use   Bikinis  
  • If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.

    Athlete   Golf   Winning  
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