I never thought about being No. 1. I just kept trying to be No. 1.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

I'm deadly serious even when I play tennis against my kids. I want to beat their brains out.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

The holes are numbered.