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Here is a list of my favorite golf quotes that will provide some inspiration and much-needed perspective 👇
“One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.”
-Bobby Jones
-Bobby Jones
“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.”
-Ben Hogan
-Ben Hogan
“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.”
-Arnold Palmer
-Arnold Palmer
“You don’t have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today’s game. It may be far from your best, but that’s all you’ve got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.”
-Walter Hagen
-Walter Hagen
“Golf tips are like Aspirin: One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you’ll be lucky to survive.”
- Harvey Penick
- Harvey Penick
“Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation”
- Jack Nicklaus
- Jack Nicklaus
“No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.”
- Tom Watson
- Tom Watson
“Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses, much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.”
- Dr Bob Rotella
- Dr Bob Rotella
“Golf puts a man’s character on the anvil and his richest qualities—patience, poise, restraint—to the flame.”
- Billy Casper
- Billy Casper
“I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.”
- Gene Sarazen
- Gene Sarazen
“A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.”
-Payne Stewart
-Payne Stewart
“You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.”
- Hale Irwin
- Hale Irwin
“Days when you just don’t have it, you don’t pack it in, you give it everything you’ve got. You grind it out.”
- Tiger Woods
- Tiger Woods
“But there is a difference between playing well and hitting the ball well. Hitting the ball well is about thirty percent of it. The rest is being comfortable with the different situations on the course.”
- Mickey Wright
- Mickey Wright
“There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
- Lee Trevino
- Lee Trevino
“Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.”
- Bruce Crampton
- Bruce Crampton
"If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf"
- Bob Hope
- Bob Hope
"One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot – the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin again and make yourself into something"
- Peter Jacobson
- Peter Jacobson
“For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.”
- Harry Vardon
- Harry Vardon
"There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike"
- Kathy Whitworth
- Kathy Whitworth
"Trust is one of the most important qualities in the game of golf. With trust, it feels like you and your golf club are partners dancing as one. Without trust, it feels like you and your golf club are on opposite sides of a tug-of-war "
- Dr. Joseph Parent
- Dr. Joseph Parent
"A routine is not a routine if you have to think about it.”
- Davis Love III
- Davis Love III
“If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf.”
- Percy Boomer
- Percy Boomer
“The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.”
- John Updike
- John Updike
Did I miss any?
What are some of your favorite quotes?
What are some of your favorite quotes?
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Nick Huber @sweatystartup
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Jun 15, 2022
Great thread