Top 100 Quotes About Putt
#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. You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee and hit the longest drive you can, but I think this is really a second-shot course. If you leave yourself with an awkward putt on the greens, it can be very tricky here.
Louis Oosthuizen
#4. The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.
Lee Westwood
#5. Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
Sam Snead
#6. 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
#7. People are kind of upset with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward. Over the weekend, he was out on his yacht. And when President Obama found out that Tony Hayward was on his yacht, he was so angry, he missed a putt.
David Letterman
#8. 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
#9. If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.
Lee Trevino
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.
Jim Bishop
#13. Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.
Ernie Els
#14. The trouble with golf is that you are only as good as your last putt.
Doug Sanders
#15. I don't know why that putt hung on the edge. I'm a clean liver. It must be my caddie.
JoAnne Carner
#16. 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
#17. A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.
Henry Beard
#19. 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
#20. How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
Babe Ruth
#22. A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.
Lydia Ko
#23. If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I'm pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.
Lydia Ko
#25. 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
#26. I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.
Aaron Baddeley
#27. That putt had more breaks than a government job.
Brian Weiss
#28. Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
#30. My dashed hopes putt-putted bravely to life once more, like a bug that gets stomped on but keeps pulling itself across the floor.
Davy Rothbart
#31. There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
Bernhard Langer
#32. When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.
Bob Schieffer
#33. How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
John Aubrey
#35. 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.
Zach Johnson
#36. 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
#37. If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin
#38. Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
Fletcher Knebel
#39. Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt ... the first one went too far!
Margaret Kennard
#40. The weather's cold. My club's bad. My knee hurts. I can't putt no more. I'm off my diet. My wife is nagging me. Other than that, everything's great.
Don Zimmer
#41. Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.
Charley Pride
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
Will Rogers
#45. I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.
Jack Nicklaus
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt.
Jack Nicklaus
#49. 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
#50. It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
J. C. Snead
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Look at the putt from behind the hole. Everyday players almost never do this. They should! Your eyes will take in more information about the slope. Sometimes you'll find that your initial read was incorrect.
Jordan Spieth
#54. When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.
Tom Lehman
#55. Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.
Hal Sutton
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. You drive for show but putt for dough.
Bobby Locke
#60. To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.
Jack Nicklaus
#61. 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
#62. The better you putt, the bolder you play.
Don January
#63. If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
Bobby Jones
#64. I never prayed that I would make a putt. I prayed that I would react well if I missed.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#65. If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.
Rory McIlroy
#66. I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.
Tom Watson
#67. 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.
Ernie Els
#68. 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?
Ernie Els
#69. 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
#70. If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.
Johnny Miller
#71. 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
#73. I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.
Peter Jacobsen
#74. A pre-putt routine helps you stay nice and relaxed so you can make the best stroke possible.
Tiger Woods
#75. Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.
Lee Trevino
#76. You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.
Bobby Locke
#77. Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.
Hal Sutton
#78. 'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.
Anton Du Beke
#79. The key ideas are simple. Find your own signature and stick to it, and follow a consistent routine. Feel it instead of trying to do it. Improve your visual interpretation of the speed and line of your putt, and roll the ball without wasting too much time and letting that visualization deteriorate.
Dave Stockton
#80. For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.
Ernie Els
#81. 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
#82. 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
#84. Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.
Arnold Palmer
#85. My dad once told me: no matter what anyone says or writes, really, none of those people have to hit your four- foot putt.You have to go do it yourself.
Tiger Woods
#86. 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
#87. 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.
Gary McCord
#88. Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.
Walter Hagen
#89. 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.
Lee Westwood
#90. 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
#91. A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.
Seve Ballesteros
#92. But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.
Ben Crenshaw
#93. 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
#94. Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left.
Lee Trevino
#95. 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
#96. There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
Walter Hagen
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.
Amy Alcott
