Tommy Bolt Quotations

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

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

Lloyd could get down in two from off the earth.

Pro golf is dull. It's a chorus line of blond towheads you can't even tell apart.

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

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

I wonder who is going to finish second.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The mind messes up more shots than the body.