As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into a hole which is of sufficient size to accomodate it by a good margin. Simple that is, provided there is no limit upon the time or the number of strokes required.

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.