Tommy Bolt Quotes About Golf

• The mind messes up more shots than the body.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Mind, Body

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

• Always throw your clubs ahead of you. That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Energy, Clubs

• Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Dirty, Golf

  "Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures". Book by Bob Glanville, 2010.

• Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Break, Drivers

• 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.

  Tommy Bolt

  Eye, Golf, Knives

• 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.

  Tommy Bolt

  Distance, Golf, Clubs

• I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Caddies, Clubs

• 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.

  Tommy Bolt

  Spring, Golf, Groups

• The good chip allows you to whistle while you walk in the dark alleys of golf.

  Tommy Bolt

  Dark, Golf, Chips

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

• Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Golf, Games

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

• I wonder who is going to finish second.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Wonder

  "Southern Hills just might be Tiger-proof" by C.W. Nevius, www.sfgate.com. June 14, 2001.

• There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, Games, World

• 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 Bolt

  Golf, World, Broke

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

• 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 Bolt

  Distance, Golf, Broken

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

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