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A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.
Sep 17, 2025
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.
Never concede the putt that beats you.
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.
You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.
His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.
Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?
Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.
Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game.
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.
Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you.
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
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.
Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.
Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.
I expect myself to do well. I'm not, like, 'Oh, well.' I'm not in that category just yet. I don't play great golf a lot anymore. I do it every now and then. I finished third in the British Open last year, so I know I can still do it.
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 older I get, the better I was.
Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.
Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
The mind messes up more shots than the body.
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different.
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.