The short game is 65% of golf. You need lob, gap, sand, putter and balls.

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — the space between your ears.

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.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

I never learned to chip and pitch very well, but I learned to get up and down.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

I never missed a putt in my mind.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.