Golf Swing Mechanics Quotes

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

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

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.

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

My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I'm also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

I've been playing golf for a little while and I can't get over the 85 hump. It doesn't matter how good or bad I shoot on one side, I'm going to end up around 85.

In golf, just because a person is big and cut and ripped, doesn't mean they have a physical advantage.

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.

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.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

My irons are three-eighths of an inch longer than standard.

Your longest drives will come when you feel you're swinging at 75 percent.

If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them.

Some golf instructors get overly technical and teach the mechanics of the ideal swing. That approach didn't work for me. So, I found a pro that didn't insist that I learn Tiger's swing. He accepted my physical limitations and improved my game by focusing on the minimal golf skills that I have.