Golf Is Mental Quotes & Sayings

Golf is a mental disorder. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot. — Sam Snead

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind. — Dan Jenkins

The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes to play, all of them different, every week; and all around him is sand, trees, grass, water, wind and 143 other players. In addition, the game is 50 percent mental, so his biggest enemy is himself. — Dan Jenkins

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve. — Lee Westwood

After you have the basics down it's all mental. — Ken Venturi

A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it. — Tiger Woods

The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top. — Arnold Palmer

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones

I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log. — Sam Snead

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport. — Johnny Miller

If you are going to talk negative about a place, you're almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game. — Jordan Spieth

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do? — Conor McGregor

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. — John Updike

Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it. — Vijay Singh

For sure, with golf it's not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That's what makes tennis great - you combine both things. It's a very mental sport and at the same time can be dramatically physical. But I do admire the mentality of sport more than the physicality because physical performance is much easier to practice than mental performance. — Rafael Nadal

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special. — Tiger Woods

Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course. — Arnold Haultain

The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline. — Louise Suggs

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package. — Ray Floyd