Golf Techniques Quotes

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.

As my followers know, I'm always looking for ways to improve my game and have a little more fun on the course.

As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

If I'm not driving the golf ball, now I can rely on something else to really get me through. It took me a while to get my game to that position, but I feel like I'm comfortable doing that now.

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.

I like to address all parts of my game, but I'm really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.

I'm an athlete. I'm not a big golf nerd in that aspect. I'm not big on the history.

If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more elementary the instruction. It can do one of two things: help you more or hurt you less. Both are good compared to the alternative.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is because the bottoms of both swings - the area around impact - are identical.

Everybody wishes they were better at golf.

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.

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.

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 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.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

There are so many aspects of the game that you can work on - you can drive it father, you can drive it straighter, you can hit your irons higher and more consistently, you can get better with your wedges, and you can always putt better. There's never an end to that striving to get better in golf.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way.