Golf Tips and Quotes
Chip Hagen with the help of Matt True, a stars characters in Little Balls, Big Dreams, wrote maxims to help improve one’s golf game. The tips do not cover techniques like stance, grip and swing. Check out the following from the book.
-80% of golf luck is bad.
-Know your limitations. If you can’t hit a shot, don’t.
-You’re as good as you think you are. Or at least the downside of this maxim is on the money. If you think you’re a loser, you’re a loser. On a golf course or anywhere else.
-Don’t sweat the small stuff. All things considered, the shanks, yips, ducks hooks are pretty small potatoes in the big scheme of things. Don’t sweat the big stuff, either. Because it simply doesn’t matter. At least not as much as you think it does.
-Let it all hang out. Express your emotions, while managing them. Experience the ups and downs, understanding that they will affect the next shot. A good shot not only increases your confidence and expectations, a good thing, but also your heart rate, a not so good thing. A bad shot can make you angry and frustrated, a bad thing, but part of living. And it can destroy your confidence. Feel and express your emotions then haul them back under control before the next shot.
Since a penalty plays an important part of Little Balls, Big Dreams, here as some quotes from notables golfers.
“What’s the penalty for killing a photographer-one stroke or two?”
-Davis Love III on a picture distracting his swing
“Hey, is this room out of bounds?”
-Alex Karras, football great on hitting a ball through a clubhouse window
“I’ll tak a two shot penalty, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to play the ball where it lies.”
-Elaine Johnson on her tee shot that hit a tree and landed in her bra
“We have to emphasize that we’re the only game where you call penalties on yourself.”
-Arnold Palmer
“I saw a course you’d really like, Trent. On the first tee, you take a penalty drop.”
-Jimmy Demaret to Robert Trent Jones, course designer