Golf Technique Quotes

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.

Golf doesn't really have many big guys.

I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.

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.

You can't have problems with hand movement, if you're going to be a good putter.

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.

When I stay athletic with good posture and get the club away in a good position, I get through it better.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

I was a pretty average golfer.

Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand.

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

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel. I don't care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don't have to change it.

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.

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'm becoming a more complete player. I have more shots. I can rely more on my putting, rely on my short game.

I think of all my iron shots as punches - not punch shots, but how much pressure I'm applying to the hit.

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

I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

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.

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

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.