Tommy Bolt quotes
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“The mind messes up more shots than the body.”
-- Tommy BoltSource : Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”
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“In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.”
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“Always throw your clubs ahead of you. That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.”
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“Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.”
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“Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.”
-- Tommy BoltSource : "Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures". Book by Bob Glanville, 2010.
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“Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.”
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“I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?”
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“I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.”
-- Tommy BoltSource : Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”
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“I wonder who is going to finish second.”
-- Tommy BoltSource : "Southern Hills just might be Tiger-proof" by C.W. Nevius, www.sfgate.com. June 14, 2001.
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“They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.”
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“Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.”
-- Tommy BoltSource : Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”
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“There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.”
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“The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.”
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“The good chip allows you to whistle while you walk in the dark alleys of golf.”
-- Tommy BoltSource : Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”
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“He [Bill Clinton] told me that he caddied in the same group with me in the Hot Springs Open. That's why I voted for him, becasue he was a caddie.”
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“Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.”
-- Tommy BoltSource : Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”
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