Quotes on Great Golf

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

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.

When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.

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

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.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

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