Henry Longhurst Quotes

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

I didn't start playing golf until '94, when the strike cut the season short. Never having played as a kid definitely makes it a challenge.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

Even if you've never picked up a club, or if you've been playing for a long time, there's always something new to learn from playing golf. That's the beauty of the game. You never stop learning.

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can.

Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I picture myself on one of my favorite British Open-style links, and in particular the great courses of the west of Ireland, whose holes flow through naturally bunkered dunesland never far from the sight or sound of surf.

I'm bad at golf.

My dad was a really good golfer, and he just taught me how to play.

I'm quite good at golf. I'm not amazing, but I play a lot.

I can sit here and hit all the balls and chip and putt all day long, but if you're not playing competitive golf... there's nothing better than competitive golf.

I'm terrible at golf, but I love the game with a passion.

You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.

In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that's the first time I ever hit a golf ball. I picked it up pretty quickly, just kind of monkey-see, monkey-do. But when I was 12, golf was so slow to me. For me, it was basketball, girls and music.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet.

Golf is not easy.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.