Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.
The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.
Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.
What it feels like when you're playing good? I don't know. It feels the same as every other day. Just more putts are going in the hole.
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
In 2013, I changed to left-hand low, or cross-handed. And it's helped a lot. At the time, the reason I switched was just a lot of inconsistency with putting. I was either making a lot of putts, or I was missing a lot of putts.
When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.
Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.
99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.
99.99% of your creation is complete before you see ANY physical evidence of it.
99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks.
Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.
What team's supposed to win - that doesn't mean anything. You've still got to go out and play. You've still got to go out and hit the shots and make the putts.
If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?