Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Kite

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Tom Kite.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Tom Kite

Thomas Oliver Kite Jr. is an American professional golfer and golf course architect. He won the U.S. Open in 1992 and spent 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 1989 and 1994.

Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.
It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating.
Golf course design is exciting. — © Tom Kite
Golf course design is exciting.
The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.
A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.
You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don't stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it's competitive and it's a wonderful show, but it's not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that.
It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money.
When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.
You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.
But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.
Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital.
Give luck a chance to happen.
I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.
But Id say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.
Youre always going to have some individual incidents that arent going to show off the Ryder Cup in the true form and spirit that it was made.
The only thing that relieves pressure is preparation.
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didnt raise a significant amount of money.
You can only play one hole at a time. — © Tom Kite
You can only play one hole at a time.
It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.
It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.
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