Harry Vardon Quotes

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You've got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you're in the boondocks it won't do you any good.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.

I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

Good golf begins with a good grip.

Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.

It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.

Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.

My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club.

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt.

I hit a one-yard draw in there