Ophelia Lovibond Quotes

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.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

When I fall behind, my swing changes.

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

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.

One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

I've got a good game plan... keep things simple with my golf swing.

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer.

I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

Golf is played with the arms.

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.

If I mis-hit the golf ball, the world doesn't blow up.

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

I have never been able to play consistently with soft hands.

They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession.

I like to have this gut to put my elbow on it when I putt because I did it for so long. I just feel healthier this way.

When your hands are cold, and you're hitting with old, low-quality irons - my first one was a Merlin model with a green shaft - you learn what to do to hit the ball solid.

I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.