Quotes about golf
golf play sight
Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts. Fred Couples
golf aim wells
When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.
golf play two
I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week. Eric Bristow
golf meeting
If you wanted to have a meeting or a golf outing, which would you choose?
golf life married wife year
In '85, I'd been married for one year and I was still very single-minded on golf. My life was pretty much 95% golf and my wife was the rest. Bernhard Langer
golf good hitting position pressure row string together tried
I just tried to regroup. The only thing I could do was put pressure on him and the only way to do that was to just keep hitting good golf shots. I was able to put together a string right in a row there that really put me in good position to win. E. B. White
golfer lighting playing scores seen shoot
He's lighting it up right now. I haven't seen any other golfer shoot the kind of scores he has consistently. Nobody's playing better.
golf typical capitalist
Golf is typical capitalist luncay. George Bernard Shaw
golf player two
In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there. Gary McCord
golf tree mold
He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.
golf industry strange works
I don't know if I want to get into the industry. Because, as strange as this sounds, everyone who works in the industry doesn't get to play golf as often as they'd like.
golf great putt shots
I didn't play all that great or putt all that well but I am only two shots behind, which is nothing on this golf course. Retief Goosen
golf play tvs
I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf. Jack Lemmon
golf play trying
At a certain point in the [golf] tournament, it becomes a match play event and becomes a match play event against who is on the leaderboard, so you have to know who is there to do what you're going to try to do. Jack Nicklaus
golf events beats
I love the golf courses because it brought the best out of me. It made me prepare, made me work at it, made me do the things I needed to do to be better, and that's what I loved about USGA events. If you couldn't handle it, then you got beat, and that's OK.
golf holes
The holes are numbered.
golf men finals
Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.
golf goal golfers
Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived and probably ever will live. That's my goal. Bobby Jones. It's the only goal.
golf player opposites
I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.
golf player thinking
I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.
golf thinking office
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
golf swings ideas
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
golf men together
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
golf player competition
Golf really excites me only when the course is difficult and challenging. I love competing. The pressure of competition against fine holes and fine players makes me feel very much alive.
golf ohio design
Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
golf play standards
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
golf player thinking
Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots. It isn't so much a lack of talent; it's a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players. And the only answer to that is practice.
golf you-again
Golf is you against yourself.
golf player world
All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
golf games precision
Golf is a game of precision, not strength.
golf tree design
If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
golf fishing long
The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.
golf thinking failing
I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.