Quotes About Golf

I've got a good game plan... keep things simple with my golf swing.

At the heart of every slice is an open clubface. And it usually goes with a steep swing that cuts across the ball from out to in.

It is never easy to have your dad as your swing coach.

There's a bunch of different ways to play the game of golf. You don't need to play it one way. It doesn't need to be one swing that's perfect out there.

Some guys talk about swinging through the ball, but I think about impact like hammering a nail. My dad actually had me hammer nails to understand the concept.

When I'm swinging the club at my best, it's because I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I feel like my body is loose. My arms are soft in front of me when I'm setting up, and my chest and shoulders feel as if they can move and turn easily.

A question I get asked a lot in pro-ams is how I'm able to swing the club as hard as I do. Honestly, I'm not swinging that hard. I'm using about 75 percent of my maximum effort.

Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.

That's what I've always been about is trying to shine a light on the game of golf and not push people away, with developing the one-length irons, having a new way of swinging the golf club and doing all these different things that look weird, but have been a massive benefit to the game, that's what I'm about.

Augusta is different, there is so much knowledge, course knowledge, that you build up through the years, that definitely swings the pendulum in the favour of the experienced player.

Rest is key. I need to get the right rest time and family time to stay refreshed. My downtime is for family activity. That's all about there is. I never switch off. Running my day-to-day golf business is a fairly busy one. There's a lot of moving parts and I'm trying to simplify it and make it easier.

In 2013, I changed to left-hand low, or cross-handed. And it's helped a lot. At the time, the reason I switched was just a lot of inconsistency with putting. I was either making a lot of putts, or I was missing a lot of putts.

Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil!

Golf was not a game he'd ever particularly wanted to take up. Nobody he liked had ever played golf, and a lot of the people he disliked intensely played all the time.

Cricket was one thing, but golf was a quite different enigma as far as Jackson was concerned. He was prepared to bet the future of the universe on the fact that he would never play the game.

His weekly golf game no longer keeps his love handles in check, he's recently resorted to a slight comb-over to cover that growing bald spot, he squints to avoid wearing the bifocals he hides in his desk drawer, and he spends his days in an office filled with decades-old sports trophies.

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.