Front 9 – About Golf

1.  Which club in your bag is your favorite?
I always use to tell people it was the one that I was hitting the best at the time, it could have been any one of them, but usually the 7-iron is the one I go to.

2.  What was your favorite Tour stop on the LPGA?
I always looked forward to Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts. It was a great tournament.

3.  What is the best tip you can give to an amateur golfer?
I think aiming would help them a lot, cause I don’t think a lot of amateurs aim. They just step up to the tee box and hit. They would like to hit it in the fairway or hit the green, but they’re not aiming there. So if they could do that or work on that a little bit, I think they’d be better players.

4.   What is your favorite golf course to play?
If I had to play one golf course the rest of my life it would have to be Pebble Beach. Aesthetically you just can’t beat the scenery. I like the golf course, it’s an old style architecture and fits right into the scenery.

5.    Do you think a hole in one is pure luck or pure skill?
I think it’s luck. It’s what you’re trying to do, but how many times have we hit it really close to the hole and had it not go in? It’s just so exciting though when it does, but it’s just luck.

6.    How many pairs of golf shoes do you have?
Well that’s a fun question. I’ve thought about that, you know at times, gosh, maybe 15-20 pair or even more, but when we traveled by car lot of times you couldn’t carry that many ~ you’d have maybe 10 pair.

7.    What's your favorite golf memory?
I've never thought of a favorite cause there’s so many. I tell a lot of stories but probably one of the one’s that always sticks in my mind is when I won my first check. It was for $33.00 and we tied for last place, three of us did, and it was a milestone. Wasn’t so much the money, but it was a plateau for me and I’d been trying really hard for six months to even come close, and when it happened it was, well I thought I’d won the tournament. 

8.    What is the most important quality in a caddie?
Don't choose the actual club to hit. Just provide good information - the distance and so forth.

9.   If you were not a professional golfer, what would you be?
I always knew I would play professional golf.

 
Back 9 – About You

10.   What is your favorite sport to watch?
Football probably, I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan and I do love to watch football.

11.   Name the 3 people you would most like to have dinner with.
John Wayne, Jesus, Winston Churchill

12.    What is your favorite TV show?
You know I don’t watch a lot of TV. I only probably watch Law & Order, but that’s about it.

13.    Which holiday do you look forward to the most?
Thanksgiving and Christmas are my two favorites.

14.    Name a place you’ve never been and why you’d like to go there.
I have been to a fair amount of them but there’s one place I’d always loved to have gone, never been, but it would be Monument Valley in the four corners area. I just think it’s majestic - it’s a natural phenomenon. They’re not really mountains, but they’re just kind of like statues or monuments that rise up, but they’re just like set and then flat, like a monument.

15.   What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
I’ve been given a lot. Harvey Penick was my teacher. The one thing he always told me to do after I’d have a lesson or been to see him, his last words were always "take dead aim" and I can’t tell you how important that is. We get caught up in our swing, swing thoughts, and everything, but you’re really just trying to get it to that target and when you lose sight of that, it makes it a lot harder.

16.    What is your favorite restaurant?
I have a favorite food. I love Mexican food so a Mexican restaurant.

17.     What is your favorite movie?
I’m just a big Western fan so that would have to be anything with John Wayne. I love all of his old movies. I love a lot of the older movies more than the newer ones.

18.    What is your signature karaoke song?
That's an easy one. I don't sing.