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Golf is played with the arms.
Those who go along get along.
What abandoned course is that?
Practice puts brains in your muscles.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
You have more potential than you think.
I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.
Forget your opponents; always play against par.
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.
I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.
Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.
Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.
Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.
To win you must have talent and desire but desire is first.
Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.
The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.
The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.
The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.
When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.
Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.
But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.
You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.
If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.
I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.
Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.
The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.
When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.
Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.
Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing.
The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.
Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!
To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
I hope I'll never get too old to want to take part in this event, and I don't think I will ever age that much.
Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.
Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.
There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.