Golf is said to be 90 percent mental and the game can often leave you scratching your head and in a rather philosophical mood. Here’s what some of the game’s greats and a few others have had to say about golf…
“Golf is a game in which you yell “fore,” shoot six, and write down five.”
-Paul Harvey
“If you’re caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.”
-Lee Trevino
“Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one.”
-Martha Beckman
“After all these years, it’s still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.”
-Chi Chi Rodriguez, on his Puerto Rican accent
“One minute you’re bleeding. The next minute you’re haemorrhaging. The next minute you’re painting the Mona Lisa.”
-Mac O’Grady, describing a typical round of golf
“Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle.”
-Unknown Golfing Poet
“My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.”
-Unknown working man
“If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using “an outside agency” and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.”
-Henry Longhurst
“Golf balls are like eggs. They’re white. They’re sold by the dozen. And you need to buy fresh ones each week.”
-Unknown golfer
“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.”
-Chi Chi Rodriguez
“Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.”
-A frustrated golfer
“Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.”
-Jack Nicklaus, on why he tees his ball high.
“Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn’t float too well.”
– Craig Stadler
“The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.”
– George Deukmejian
“Follow-through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.”
– Henry Beard
“Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn’t a lot of strokes when you consider the course.”
– Lee Trevino
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