Top 52 Golf Putt Quotes
#1. Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.
Tommy Bolt
#2. Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
Sam Snead
#3. The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.
Ray Romano
#4. Believe it or not, I'm not really thinking about anything when I putt ... It's hard to teach. I let my instincts take over. I like to see which way the break is going and use it. When I'm putting well, I feel like I can make everything.
Brad Faxon
#5. If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.
Lee Trevino
#6. The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.
Notah Begay III
#7. I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt.
John Daly
#8. The trouble with golf is that you are only as good as your last putt.
Doug Sanders
#9. I don't know why that putt hung on the edge. I'm a clean liver. It must be my caddie.
JoAnne Carner
#10. I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.
Bernhard Langer
#11. A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.
Henry Beard
#13. 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.
Mike Weir
#16. A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.
Ben Sayers
#17. That putt had more breaks than a government job.
Brian Weiss
#19. In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.
Charles Brown MacDonald
#20. If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin
#21. Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
Fletcher Knebel
#22. Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt ... the first one went too far!
Margaret Kennard
#23. Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.
Charley Pride
#24. As all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in this and a certain unfairness even, which makes golf an even apter mirror of reality.
John Updike
#25. The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.
Ken Venturi
#26. Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
Will Rogers
#27. I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.
Jack Nicklaus
#28. 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
#29. When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.
Mac O'Grady
#30. If it really made sense to "let the club do the work," you'd just say, "Driver, wedge to the green, one-putt," and walk to the next tee.
Tom Mulligan
#31. It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
J. C. Snead
#32. I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.
Sam Snead
#33. I can't exactly describe it, but as I looked at the putt, the hole looked as big as a wash tub, I suddenly became convinced I couldn't miss. All I tried to do was keep the sensation by not questioning it.
Jack Fleck
#34. Hagen said that no-one remembers who finished second. But they still ask me if I ever think about that putt I missed to win the 1970 Open at St. Andrews. I tell them that some times it doesn't cross my mind for a full five minutes.
Doug Sanders
#35. I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#36. The better you putt, the bolder you play.
Don January
#37. I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#38. The best stroked putt in a lifetime does not bring the aesthetic satisfaction of a perfectly hit wood or iron shot. There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.
Al Barkow
#40. I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.
Peter Jacobsen
#41. Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.
Lee Trevino
#42. There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.
Harry Vardon
#43. How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.
Arnold Palmer
#45. Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.
Arnold Palmer
#46. 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.
Matt Kuchar
#47. Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.
Walter Hagen
#48. 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.
Raymond Floyd
#49. You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.
Donald Trump
#50. 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
#51. 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.
Tom Watson
#52. The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.
John Updike