You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them.
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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.
Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.
Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.
When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.
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.
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.
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.
The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
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.
In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.
I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.
The better you putt, the bolder you play.
You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.
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.
Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.
No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.
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.
It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.
My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.
I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.
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