Amateur Golfers Quotes

I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble.

Putting is so difficult, so universally vexing, that the best the pros can do is tell us how to miss. 'Miss it on the pro side,' they say, meaning miss it above the hole. I can't even do that consistently. I miss it on the pro side. I miss it on the amateur side. I miss it on both sides of the clown's mouth.

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

I don't think that golf has a place for two sets of rules. I think one of the reasons that the game has progressed in the way that it has over the years is the fact that the amateurs and the pros all play the same game, and they play under the same set of rules.

I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

One of the great things about a celebrity pro-am is that you get to play along with the very best professional golfers in the world.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.

You're never going to be a Yankee for a day, or you're never going to be a Laker, but with Pro-Ams, they allow you to feel like you're a professional golfer and play under their conditions.

I want people to see that golf is fun and it's cool. You don't have to be a professional golfer to enjoy it.