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Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough. -- Henry Beard
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. -- Ben Hogan
Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done. -- Tom Watson
In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron. -- Lee Trevino
If you can hit your 3- and 5-woods with confidence from the fairway, par 5s become birdie opportunities, and 420-yard par 4s are a lot less scary. -- Ernie Els
I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come. -- Yani Tseng
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. -- Tommy Bolt
I almost never hit a shot all out, and I make a conscious effort to swing my long clubs just as I do my wedges. Keep this in mind when hitting your fairway woods. -- Ernie Els
I'm sure you have a hole at your course where you love to hit the tee shot. You can't wait to get up there and bomb away because the fairway is wide, or the hole always plays downwind. -- Ernie Els
When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first instinct is probably to give it a little more power because you're worried about coming up short. -- Ernie Els
My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work. -- Jason Aldean
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
I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them. -- Johnny Miller
It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth. -- Bill Paxton
Added to the rooster of courses, 'Tiger Woods 10' adds in seven new courses from the pristine Bethpage Black, home of this year's U.S. Open, to the legendary Pinehurst. The Wii Weather Channel will even adjust the forecast to match the fairway because sometimes even the pros have to play in the rain. -- Rob Manuel
From a good lie in the middle of a fairway bunker, I'll make the same swing as I do from an average fairway lie. I'll dig my feet in slightly and keep my lower body stable so I won't slip, but I don't change my club selection or setup. It's only when the ball is sitting down in the sand that I'll make some modifications. -- Ernie Els
That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway. -- Colin Montgomerie
A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway. -- Jim Bishop
When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense. -- Aaron Baddeley
I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference. -- Barry Lane
Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded. -- Bob Hope
It was neat to see a plaque on the 18th fairway, and go up there and kind of look at the green and just remembering the moment, -- Paula Creamer
Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle. -- Jackie Gleason

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