Chi Chi Rodriguez Quotes

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time.

I do my best on the golf course. I am learning about the business side of it. But I have a lot of great partners that help me with all those things.

[Jack Nicklaus] was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player.

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.

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.

Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.

I don't see a lot of guys that have done that [winning three times before age 24], besides Tiger Woods, of course, and, you know, the other legends of the game. It's just one of those things, I believe in myself and – especially with how hard I've worked – I'm one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I've proven myself.

If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.

A lot more variables in golf. But the biggest thing is like just routine. Like I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players, is for me I really rely on my routine every single day when I get ready for games and how I prepare.

There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not.

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this.

If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.