Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.
~ Bruce Lansky

[Stan Nehilla]

A golfer has to train his swing on the practice tee, then trust it on the course.
~ Dr Bob Rotella

[Stan Nehilla]

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
~ Bobby Jones

[Stan Nehilla]

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.
~ Henry Beard

[Stan Nehilla]

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.
~ Peter Dobereiner

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.
~ Bobby Jones

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.
~ Bobby Jones

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
~ Grantland Rice

[Stan Nehilla]

I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"
~ Jack Lemmon

[Stan Nehilla]

It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
~ Al McGuire