Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Jul 28

"Many times when fear starts to get me, my best chance of overcoming it lies in facing it squarely and examining it rationally."
- Jack Nicklaus, Golf's Mental Magic

[Stan Nehilla]

Jul 29

"People take for granted that we're all mental giants. But it takes time to develop the correct frame of mind."
- Paul Azinger

[Stan Nehilla]

Jul 30

"I'm glad I brought this course, this monster to its knees."
- Ben Hogan, after his 1951 U. S. Open win at Oakland Hills

[Stan Nehilla]

Jul 31

On being asked how good Young Tom Morris really was , an aged golfer replied: "I cannot imagine anyone playing better."
- Anonymous

[Stan Nehilla]

Aug 1

"Long driving, if it be not the most deadly, is certainly the most dashing and fascinating part of the game; and of all others the principal difficulty of the golfer to acquire."
- H. B. Farnie (he wrote The Golfer's Manual, the first book on golf instruction in 1857)

[Stan Nehilla]

Aug 2

"Action before thought is the ruination of most of your shots."
- Tommy Armour, How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time

[Stan Nehilla]

Aug 3

"A good golf course is like good music or good anything else. It is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one plays it, but one which grows on the player the more frequently they visit it."
- Alister Mackenzie

[Stan Nehilla]

Aug 4

Furnace Creek Golf Club in Death Valley, California, at 214 feet below sea level is the lowest course in the world. The course closes in the summer because of the extreme heat which causes the course's lakes to dry up.

[Stan Nehilla]

Aug 5

"The worst club in my bag is my brain."
- Chris Perry

[Stan Nehilla]

Aug 6

"I had some uphill putts - - after each of my downhill putts."
- Homero Blancas