I'm a pretty low-stress guy. I take what the golf course gives me. Some days, when I'm in full control, I'm able to fire at pins with 5-irons. Other days, I'm looking more toward the middle of the green.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
I don't need to be too intense. I don't play my best golf when I'm super-intense.
This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
I play golf - badly.
I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.
I need to improve my shorter stuff with my irons, from 100 to 175 yards. If I can hit a few more greens with those clubs and tighten up the proximity to the hole, that would help a lot.
I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.