Putts Quotes

#1. The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

David Duval

#3. My putting strategy is simple: If you're not making putts, don't be afraid to change your technique.

Louis Oosthuizen

#4. Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

Jack Wagner

#5. Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.

Dan Jenkins

#6. When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.

Ken Green

#7. There are times when a golfer is tempted to throw her clubs away and forget the whole 'humblin' business.' At other times, she wouldn't trade places with a queen-that's when the shots are long and true, and putts are dropping.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#8. For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Ernie Els

#9. 99% of the putts that are short don't go in the hole

Lee Trevino

#10. When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.

Jack Nicklaus

#11. You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You're going to miss putts out on an LPGA tour and have bad rounds. You just have to think to yourself that you always have tomorrow, and you're lucky enough to be out here just playing golf for a living.

Lexi Thompson

#12. Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.

Yogi Berra

#13. Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

Lee Trevino

#14. It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

Bernhard Langer

#15. Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.

Walter Hagen

#16. Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts.

John Daly

#17. I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.

Sam Snead

#18. Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

Henry Beard

#19. Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.

Dan Jenkins

#20. A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.

Arnold Palmer

#21. Bets lengthen putts and shorten drives.

Henry Beard

#22. I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.

Carly Fiorina

#23. Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

Homero Blancas

#24. You know, one day you make putts and the next day you don't.

Retief Goosen

#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. I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.

David Duval

#27. Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

Gene Sarazen

#28. Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.

Angel Cabrera

#29. To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.

Adam Derek Scott

#30. My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.

Jack Wagner

#31. You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies.

Louis Oosthuizen