Top 54 Quotes About Golf Swings
#1. That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.
Jack Nicklaus
#2. Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go.
Jason Dufner
#3. I still swing the way I used to, but when I look up the ball is going in a different direction.
Lee Trevino
#4. If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Sandy Koufax
#5. Dennis Murray is a wonderful Golf Professional who is personable and skillful as an instructor. Dennis helped me work on my golf swing for a full week back in the 80's when I was still playing the PGA Tour. His instruction was great and helped my game very much.
Jerry Pate
#6. Everybody has two swings-a beautiful practice swing and the choked-up one with with which they hit the ball. So it wouldn't do either of us a damned bit of good to look at your practice swing.
Ed Furgol
#7. There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.
John Updike
#8. I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
#9. I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.
Ricky Ponting
#10. As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.
Fred Couples
#11. I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .
Harvey Penick
#12. Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.
Nick Faldo
#13. To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.
Alistair Cooke
#14. There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice.
Tom Mulligan
#15. When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.
Sam Snead
#16. Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking too many.
Richard Armour
#17. Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.
David Leadbetter
#18. If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.
Henry Beard
#19. The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.
Peter Jacobsen
#20. Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.
Jimmy Demaret
#21. I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.
Ben Hogan
#22. A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.
Carol Mann
#23. Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.
Toney Penna
#25. "My swing is too fast" may be the biggest misconception ever. Think about it. If you take a fast, lousy swing and slow it down, all you've got left is a slow, lousy swing. Most people swing too slow, not too fast.
Hank Haney
#26. The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.
John Updike
#27. I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.'
Bob Hope
#28. The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.
Byron Nelson
#29. The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.
Carol Mann
#30. If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.
Gary Player
#31. There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
Kathy Whitworth
#32. We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a lot of women go wrong. They should try to whack it a few times and see what happens.
Helen Alfredsson
#33. Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.
David Leadbetter
#34. I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel. I don't care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don't have to change it.
Sergio Garcia
#35. Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.
Clint Eastwood
#37. The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
John Updike
#38. Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.
Henry Beard
#40. It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.
Nick Faldo
#41. You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
Bobby Jones
#42. My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
Lee Trevino
#43. My golf swing is a bit like ironing a shirt. You get one side smoothed out, turn it over and there is a big wrinkle on the other side. Then you iron that one out, turn it over and there is yet another wrinkle.
Tom Watson
#44. When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.
Earl Woods
#45. It's much easier to have one swing thought than many.
Butch Harmon
#46. Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.
Mark McCumber
#48. The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it
George Knudson
#49. I think the golf swing is all about rotation, all about trying to keep the club on plane.
Tiger Woods
#50. 'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.
Jason Day
#51. Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.
Lee Trevino
#52. My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club.
Tiger Woods
#53. What's the longest walk in golf? It's from the practice tee to the first tee. I don't care if it's 10 yards. It's the longest walk in golf. Winners take their swing with them. Losers don't.
Moe Norman
#54. Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.
Alan Shepard
