Top 124 Putt Quotes & Sayings

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

I never missed a putt in my mind.

Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt.

I was a big kid who could putt well.

A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.

When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

I don't know why that putt hung on the edge. I'm a clean liver. It must be my caddie.

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

Before you take your address, while you're still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you've chosen and falling into the cup. If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

As we all know, the concept of the gimme putt is anathema to the PGA Tour.

A pre-putt routine helps you stay nice and relaxed so you can make the best stroke possible.

You have to watch your handicap. My son Steve says, "Never make a putt you don't have to."

I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.

I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.

Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

I read the greens in Spanish, but I putt in English.

I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt...the first one went too far!

A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.

I can't putt. The reasons are infinite. When lining up a putt, I can't remember if the ball always breaks to the ocean or to the valley or away from Pinnacle Peak. And because I took up the game in Minnesota, in what is often called Middle America, I also grew up asking, 'To which ocean does it break?'

I like to have this gut to put my elbow on it when I putt because I did it for so long. I just feel healthier this way.

But, no, I don't feel my career has not been fulfilled because I didn't win the US Open. It's like the guy said: You going to crucify a man because he missed a putt to win a tournament? Does a three-foot putt mean his whole life? Another guy said, well, he couldn't win the big one. Well, Jesus, what do you call those others? What's big and what's small?

Never concede the putt that beats you.

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!

The better you putt, the bolder you play.

When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.

The trouble with golf is that you are only as good as your last putt.

No one cares what I think about a 6-foot putt. They care what Ian Baker-Finch thinks.

If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!

I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

I remember watching Tiger make the putt in '08. I was standing by a tree that's no longer there, it got taken down by the storm. I watched that putt live.

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

A lot of people in the media say that Donald Trump goes golfing too much, which raises a very important question: Why do you care? Do you want to know what he's not doing when he's golfing? Being president. Let the man putt-putt!

Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.

Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

You drive for show but putt for dough.

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.

The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.

No putt is too short to be despised.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.