Quotes of the Week

By GolfChannel.com Team

Editor's Note: In our Parting Shots feature, the GOLFCHANNEL.com team offers up the best quotes from the most recent week in golf.
 
"After what Butch said…my marketability went right down. I told him ‘you cost me quite a bit of money through the stuff that you said, I wish you would have called me then you could have got the facts straight.'” -- John Daly, starting a war of words through the media with former swing coach Butch Harmon.
 
"John Daly called me on Thursday and said he had lost all of his endorsement contracts because of me and my statements and asked if I could print a retraction. I said, ‘John, you lost your contracts because of you and not anyone else….you need to quit blaming everyone else….I wish you well and I hope you play well.’” -- Butch Harmon, giving his side of the story.
 
"I’ve done a lot of different events, but golf is in my soul. I love calling the big NFL games, and the Final Four, and I don’t want to make them sound like they’re second to anything, but golf is in the fabric of my life." -- Jim Nantz, CBS announcer extraordinaire, expressing his passion for the game of golf.
 
"Not very often are holes-in-one perfect shots, but this one happened to be." -- Jay Williamson, after getting the first hole-in-one in the six-year history of the Wachovia Championship, knocking his tee shot into the cup on the par-3 245-yard sixth.
 

"We’re all just crossing our fingers and hoping some way and some how the integrity of the tree can survive." -- Jay Blasi, one of the course designers at Chambers Bay the site of the 2015 U.S. Open, after a catcher’s mitt-sized chunk of the only tree on the course had been hacked away.
 
"In the last three or four years, through some of the stretching and stuff, I've probably grown a half inch to an inch.” -- Phil Mickelson, telling reporters that he has apparently grown taller thanks to some new stretching techniques.
 
"I think it’s the hardest course in the world, 7,600 yards at sea level." -- Lefty again, giving his thoughts on the difficulty of Torrey Pines, the site of this year's U.S. Open, after finishing a practice round at the course.
 
"According to one press guy last year I was ‘continuing my inexorable slide to oblivion’. It was gratuitous and needless and it was nice to prove people like that wrong.” -- Darren Clarke, using an unpleasant comment from a reporter as motivation for his first European Tour win for five years.
 
"He’s a good player. Obviously, when he’s not playing football, he spends a little bit of time playing golf, which is probably good—better than doing some of the other things a lot of those guys do." -- Scott Verplank, after playing a pro-am round with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.
 
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