Words matter. These are the best Putt Quotes from famous people such as Steve Rushin, Ernie Els, Raymond Floyd, John Daly, Mike Weir, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I can’t putt. The reasons are infinite. When lining up a putt, I can’t remember if the ball always breaks to the ocean or to the valley or away from Pinnacle Peak. And because I took up the game in Minnesota, in what is often called Middle America, I also grew up asking, ‘To which ocean does it break?’
Before you take your address, while you’re still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you’ve chosen and falling into the cup. If you don’t believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?
I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, ‘If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters.’ So it was a great thrill to play there.
I can sit here and hit all the balls and chip and putt all day long, but if you’re not playing competitive golf… there’s nothing better than competitive golf.
I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.
And I think before I was so focused on speed or I was so focused on trying to hit this great putt that I just wasn’t reacting to what I was doing. I react when I hit an iron shot, why can’t I do that when I’m over the putter?
I can’t dwell on the past, that I haven’t won a lot, but anytime I didn’t play good was mainly because I didn’t putt very good.
These guys that take a shower, grab a cup of coffee, and go straight to the tee? That’s not the way to do it. When you warm up, hit 20 to 25 wedges, a few middle irons, and 10 to 15 3-woods and drivers. If you’re going to putt, give yourself 10 minutes.
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
I don’t putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I’m haunted by the notion that I’m sure it’s the best way to putt.
If you drink don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.
Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it’s going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don’t get fooled by an early slope or break.
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you’re a kid, you’re not scared of anything.
As we all know, the concept of the gimme putt is anathema to the PGA Tour.
Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn’t putt very well, nor in the last round of last year’s Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year’s Open at Turnberry, where I came second.
Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can’t putt.
For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.
I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.
I didn’t learn how to swing a golf club until late in my career. And even though I won all those tournaments, I still struggled with consistency, and I relied on my strengths, which were hitting the ball long and high, and I could chip and putt with the best of ’em.
There are so many aspects of the game that you can work on – you can drive it father, you can drive it straighter, you can hit your irons higher and more consistently, you can get better with your wedges, and you can always putt better. There’s never an end to that striving to get better in golf.