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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course. -- Yani Tseng
I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National. -- Jack Nicklaus
Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it. -- Jack Nicklaus
If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time. -- Gary Player
I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf. -- Jack Nicklaus
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. -- Bob Goalby
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
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. -- Bobby Jones
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. -- William Butler Yeats
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. -- Mike Weir
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. -- Tiger Woods
The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta. -- Tiger Woods
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
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 -- Ben Crenshaw
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. -- Joe Inman
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. -- Fred Couples
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. -- Jack Nicklaus
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? -- John Berendt
They don't cut the greens here at Augusta. they use bikini wax. -- Gary McCord
I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned -- Drake
It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks. -- Ian Poulter
If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat. -- Tom Watson
Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country. -- Jack Nicklaus
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. -- David Feherty
The experience at the Masters was two years ago, and I am eager to win again this year so I can return to Augusta National in 2016. -- Guan Tianlang
I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign? -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. Iâ??m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. Thatâ??s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together. -- Oscar Wilde
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. -- Ben Crenshaw
I must say, Graystone, you are surviving married life very nicely. Peter helped himself to claret from the decanter that had been set out in the library.Thank you, Sheldrake. I flatter myself that not every man could survive being married to Augusta. -- Amanda Quick
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. -- Joe Inman
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. -- Ernie Els
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. -- Jack Nicklaus
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. -- Audre Lorde

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