Sam Snead

The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it’s detachment.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Those who go along get along.

Golf is played with the arms.

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players’ minds the next time out.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

The greens are harder than a whore’s heart.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn’t give away.