Golf Instruction Quotes

Golf doesn't really have many big guys.

From 1975-'79, I worked for PGA professional Tony Bruno. For five years I watched, lost in admiration, as Tony ran the golf shop at Battleground Country Club in Manalapan, N.J. Tony put in 80-hour weeks doing what nearly 29,000 men and women club pros do every day: Keeping the game alive with a smile.

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.

To have the opportunity to work with Tiger Woods was just so awesome. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the challenge. I enjoyed the good parts where he was winning. And I enjoyed the challenge to help him get better. But six years was enough.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

It's important for me to understand more about my swing and my game, no matter who I end up working with.

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

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.

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

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

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

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

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.

The main reason I went on Twitter was to look at golfers like Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Rory McIlroy and see what they are up to.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

This is a great thing, to make a living as a professional golfer, isn't it?

It's no secret that I'm a fan of hitting a lot of balls.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.