39 Quotes by Walter Hagen

It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.

Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.

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

Don't forget to stop and smell the roses.

Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.

The course is playing the players instead of the players playing the course.

Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.

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.

What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.