Charles Howell Course Quotations

We're not out there hitting people and tackling people, but walking 36 holes on this golf course is not easy. I think it's just as important to physically stay strong as it is mentally.

To be honest, I was a little bit disappointed with the changes in '02 because I wanted to play the same golf course everyone else had played and I couldn't. I wanted to play at least one Masters on the same course that Tiger (Woods) did what he did in '97 on.

Any time you take a golf course and completely overhaul it, you're going to get some mixed feelings. But now I think it's fine. I really do. There isn't one thing I saw at Augusta National that I haven't seen done everywhere else.

If you had never seen this golf course and didn't know what course you were playing, you would think, OK, this is fine. But if you see this from the perspective that Augusta is one of the most familiar courses in the world, you would look at the changes and say, 'Wow, this is going to make a big difference'.

The course is a grind and that's the way it should be. It's a major, it's the Masters. I think that's the way Bobby Jones would have wanted it. I don't think he'd like to see guys strolling around laughing, smiling, having a big time.