Golf Quotes - Page 9

What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.

A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.

[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

They say I get into too many bunkers. But is no problem. I am the best bunker player.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.

In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills

No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

I never missed a putt in my mind.

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.