Hal Linden Quotes

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.

You can't pick up a golf club if your thumb hurts.

I learned through the 'Jack Nicklaus Lesson Tee,' the cartoon. Back then, it was 1970 or '69 when it came out. Learned the grip that way and everything in the cartoon... So that's kind of how it all started for me.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

I just go out and play golf.

I'm obsessed with golf, so I love going to play golf.

My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

Okay so best golf tips I think are number one keep your head down. If you're a beginner it's the number one rule. That way you'll always make contact.

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

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

Good golf begins with a good grip.

You ever go up to the tee and say, 'Don't hit it left, don't hit it right'? That's your conscious mind. My body knows how to play golf. I've trained it to do that. It's just a matter of keeping my conscious mind out of it.

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

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.