Quotes on Golf Course

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

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 golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.