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I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.
Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.
I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.
The player had almost as much fun as the parent and coaches. This league is well worth the time the professionals put into it. I would encourage any professional to host a team.
Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.
I loved curling and I loved the social aspect of it, the team. It's like if you had the same golf foursome for a long time, or if you're a bridge player, or a beer-league hockey team. You start to look forward to that time together and camaraderie, and having something that you do just for yourself.
The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.
I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many sweaters.
The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
Golf is tougher than my first wife.
Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.
I owe everything to golf. Where else could a guy with an IQ like mine make this much money?
Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.
It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them.
For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.
Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.
They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.