J. D. Martinez Quotes

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

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

If you are hitting the ball well, your form, your technique looks good, and when you are not, everything about your game looks bad. That is how it goes.

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.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.

I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

You go out on the practice range, and something kind of clicks, and you start hitting the ball very crisply. And you're sure that you've found it, the holy grail - that all you have to do is hold your hand in a certain way. Then you go out on the golf course, and it's completely disappeared.

I need to get better with my 3-wood and hybrid. Those are the clubs I missed the majority of my fairways with.

I tried changing my swing because I thought it would make me better. I thought it would make me a world-class golfer. I was a bit naive and I was a bit silly and just got going the wrong way.

If I can figure out this wedge stuff and become a really good wedger, I'll be the number-one player in the world.

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

I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

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

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 play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game.

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.