Golf Mistakes Quotes

The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

Spin is a tricky thing. When you're trying to avoid it - say, on a tee shot, where sidespin puts you in the trees - it's easy to make it happen.

I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.

For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

Ball position is everything in iron play. If you aren't careful about it, you can create some major problems in your game just by getting an inch or two off.

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

I can't dwell on the past, that I haven't won a lot, but anytime I didn't play good was mainly because I didn't putt very good.

One of the worst mistakes you can make in golf is trying to force the game.

The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.

A golfer rarely needs to hit a spectacular shot until the one that preceded it was pretty bad.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

My parent are very proud, but Dad ripped into me for throwing a club on the 11th. He's happy with the way I played, but he always has to have something to moan about!

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

The best cure for a double-bogey is a toffee, or sugar - any type of sugar; I love my chocolate.

At the U.S. Open, you're going to make bogeys.

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

The only reason why I don't win is because of a bad decision, misjudged the wind, misjudged the read on the greens and wet conditions. Those are the three or four things that will cause me not to win. That's it.

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.