The Best Golf Fun Quotes

Some of the world’s greatest golfers have shared their words of wisdom with us. Whilst many of them are simply amusing (like most of Lee Trevino’s), a lot of have an under-lying golfing truth.

For a bit of fun we’ve compiled a list of our favourite golf quotes from some of the worlds greatest golfers and golf coaches.

All of them have a truth to them though, so try to remember some of them next time you are practising or out on the golf course.

Here are some of Lee Trevino’s famous funny golf quotes:

“If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron” (Don’t try this at home…)

“An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get worse”

“One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and a cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic”

“You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.”

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“No-one ever swung a golf club too slowly” – Bobby Jones

“The most important shot in golf is the next one” – Ben Hogan

“There is no similarity between golf and putting – they are two different games. One is played in the air and the other on the ground” – Ben Hogan

“Of all the hazards, fear is the worst” – Sam Snead

“A routine is not a routine if you have to think about it” – Davis Love Jr

“A golfer has to train his swing on the practice range, then trust it on the course” – Dr Bob Rotella

“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

Putting Games

When you’re practising or playing a round of golf, you can add some spice and fun into the mix by playing some putting games. It can put more pressure on you so you know how to handle it when you’re facing crucial putts, and of course you can win some side bets if you putt well!

• Putting Game #1 – The ‘Monty’ Practise Drill
  Colin Montgomerie used to play this putting game to help him with those short pressure putts. Hole as many short putts as you can in a row. When you miss one restart counting from one again. As you hole more and more putts the pressure really starts to mount!!! Monty used to regularly hit well over 100 putts before missing one. How many can you hole in a row?
• Putting Game #2 – Matchplay Putting For Money
  Find an opponent on the putting green and work your way around the putting green playing them in a matchplay format. You can add some spice by playing for prize money – say $1 per hole. So if you win 3 holes you win $3. The key to winning this putting game is to avoid three putts
• Putting Game #3 – Five Over Five Under
  This one is described in detail in pur Psychology lesson – the idea is that you use five short putts around the hole. You start on level par and the first putt is for a par. If you hole the putt you stay at level par. If you miss the putt you go to one over par. The next putt is a birdie putt. If you’re level par and hole it you go to one under. If you miss you stay at level par. The next putt is a par putt, and so on…
  If you get to five over, you’ve lost the game. If you get to five under you’ve won!
  And when you get to four under or four over, the pressure really mounts so it’s great practising those pressure situations
  Make sure you stick with your routine on every putt – especially on the real pressure putts

For a final bit of fun – keep a note on your score card of how many putts you took on each hole, and make a special note of one putts and three putts. For each one putt you make, every opponent putts a dollar in the hat and you all do the same for each other. For each three putt you make, you have to put a dollar into the hat, and the same for your opponents. The one that had to put the least amount of money into the hat takes the cash!

But do the decent thing and buy them a beer with it!

Classic Putts

The putter was the first club Tiger Woods learned to play with

In the vast majority of games in golf it’s a putt that seals the victory, and over the years there have been many classic putts.

Here are just a few of our favourites – each of which has it’s own story.

Tiger Woods – 2008 US Open
When Tiger burst onto the scene, he was a good putter at best. Now he is a great putter and it’s probably the most improved part of his game since he turned pro. In 2008 he didn’t miss a single putt inside four feet in all of the tournaments he entered. That is an unbelievable statistic, and unlikey to be matched for some time to come.

Look at the sheer joy on Tiger’s face as he sinks the winning putt to win a tough play-off in the US Open.

This was a monster putt that Justin holed from well over 30 feet!

Justin Leonard – 1999 Ryder Cup
This was a monster putt that Justin holed from well over 30 feet.

It was a great putt, even though he admitted there was a little bit of luck for it to go in – there always is with the really long putts!

But it went onto cause a storm of controversy as his team mates rushed onto the actual putting green to congratulate him when his European opponents were still waiting to putt thereby damaging the putting surface and breaking their concentration.

it went onto become such a well known putt when Ian celebrated as the ball dropped into the hole

Ian Woosnam – 1991 US Masters.
An oldie but a goldie! And we’re not talking about Ian Woosnam.

This was actually a pretty poor putt by Ian Woosnam – it doesn’t look like he kept his head very still does it?!

But somehow he holed it and it went onto become such a well known putt when Ian celebrated as the ball dropped into the hole.

One of the most famous missed putts in modern golfing history.

Bernhard Langer – 1991 Ryder Cup
This was billed as the putt that lost the Europeans the 1991 Ryder Cup.

Remember that the Ryder Cup is a team event, and any player who lost their match could have been said to have lost the Ryder Cup, so not really a fair reflection on this single putt.

Langer often suffered from putting ‘yips’ and went onto invent his own putting grip called the ‘Langer’ grip which helped him overcome them.

Langer was always known as ‘the professionals professional’ due to his perfectionist attitude and psychological sense.

The weekend after this Langer won his next European Tour Event…….