Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.
I don't think golf has ever been any pressure as far as having to succeed.
One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
Jesus Christ can't hit a golf ball straight. It's virtually impossible - at best it's an accident.
Sometimes pars are hard.
Muirfield without a wind is like a lady undressed. No challenge.
The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.
Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it.
When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you.
Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.
In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.
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.
Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.
If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.
The first 18 holes are extremely difficult.
Few learn golf in a lifetime.
You have to have fine motor control to make putts when you need them the most. That's why golf is such a challenge - you go from extreme power to slowing down and making putts when you need them.
People think I can really play golf, but it's actually been almost an albatross for me. I really struggle not only to break 80, but sometimes to break 90.
I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose
The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
You are going to hit some good shots and not get rewarded, but that's just U.S. Open golf. It's tough; it's hard.
