Day Brightener – Golf According To Some Of The Greats In The Game

1. “Success in this game depends less on strength of body than strength of mind and character.” – Arnold Palmer

2. “I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for, getting paid for doing what you love.” -Tiger Woods

3. “Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.” -James Ross

4 “If you worry about making bogeys, it makes the game that much more difficult. You put more pressure on yourself without even noticing it. It makes a difference to take it easy when things aren’t going right.” -Sergio Garcia

5 “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing!” -Anonymous

6. “Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.” -P.G. Wodehouse

7.  “The value of routine; trusting your swing.” -Lorii Myers

8. “A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks.” -Gary Player

9. “Arnold’s place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen.” -Jack Nicklaus

10. “Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.” -Dr Bob Rotella

11. “I have to believe in myself. I know what I can do, what I can achieve.” -Sergio Garcia

12. “Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.” -Bruce Crampton

13. “Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.” -Tiger Woods

14. “One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.” -Bobby Jones

15. “For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.” -Harry Vardon

16. “One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot – the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.” -Peter Jacobsen

17. “As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” -Ben Hogan

18. “Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime, in which you can exhaust yourself but never your subject.” -David Forgan

19. “I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.” -Ben Hogan

20. “Keep your sense of humor. There’s enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you’re supposed to enjoy.” -Amy Alcott

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

22. “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” -Arnold Palmer

23. “The proper score for a businessman golfer is 90. If he is better than that he is neglecting his business. If he’s worse, he’s neglecting his golf.” -St Andrews Rotary Club Member

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