Tommy Bolt Quotes

The mind messes up more shots than the body.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.

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

I wonder who is going to finish second.

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

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.

Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.

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