“Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.” John Churton Collins
” Don’t matter how you do it. Just do it like you know it.” Jerry Jeff Walker
“You train with mechanics. You play by feel.” Jack Nicklaus
” The finest way to putt is the way that gets the ball into the hole. And confidence is half the battle. Without it, putting is not merely difficult; it is impossible.” Harry Vardon
“Golf is a game of motion and rhythm, not position and mechanics.” Martin Hall
” If points of style are thought about and trusted to, bad shots will be frequent.” Sir Walter Simpson
” The point is that it doesn’t matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.” Seve Ballesteros
” Take it easily and lazily because the golf ball isn’t going to run away while you’re swinging.” Sam Snead
” A hit must be perfectly timed, but a swing will time itself.” Grantland Rice
” Conscious work on mechanics should be done on the Training Ground, not on the Playing Ground.” Jim Flick
” Trying to do in three what should normally require four often ends up taking five.” Harry Vardon
” This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.” Ben Hogan
” I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don’t worry about it. It’s just one of those seven.” Walter Hagan
” There are two things you can learn by stopping your back-swing at the top and checking the position of your hands: How many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.” Thomas Mulligan
” Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You’ll have blood and guts and bones all over the place. But you won’t have a cat.” Ernest Jones
” The golf swing is like sex: you can’t be thinking of the mechanics of the act while you’re doing it.” Dave Hill
” After taking the stance, it is too late to worry. The only thing to do then is to hit the ball.” Bobby Jones
” We are getting too mechanical about the golf swing. Golf was never meant to be an exact science-it’s an art form. Einstein was a great scientist but a lousy golfer.” Bob Toski