Selected Entertaining and Memorable Short Game Quotes

There is certainly no shortage of memorable short game quotes, since the game of golf is enjoyed by both amateurs and professionals around the world. Here are some of my favorite short game quotes from the likes of Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Dean Martin, and the venerable Chi Chi Rodriguez.

Short game quotes from professional golfers

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
-Sam Snead

Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.
-Chi Chi Rodriguez

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

Drive for show, putt for dough.
-Bobby Locke

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up applying his niblick to your head.
-Harry Vardon

Love and putting are mysteries for the philosopher to solve. Both subjects are beyond golfers.
-Tommy Armour

Selecting a putter is like selecting a wife; to each his own.
-Ben Hogan

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

Players don't get relief from divots in fairways or footprints in bunkers. Why should they get relief from spike marks on the greens?
-Jeff Hall

I've never missed a putt in my mind.
-Jack Nicklaus

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball half-way down the leg.
-J.C. Snead on putting

The three things I fear most in golf are lightening, Ben Hogan, and a downhill putt.
-Sam Snead

That son of a bitch was able to hole a putt over sixty feet of peanut brittle.
-Lloyd Magnum on Bobby Locke

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.
-Homero Blancas when asked if he had any uphill putts

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

Among golfers, the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
-Bobby Locke

The difference between getting in a sand trap and getting in water is like the difference between an auto wreck and an airplane wreck. You can recover from one of them.
-Bobby Jones

A golf ball simply cannot find the hole by itself. Even if it could, the ball would never do so willingly, after the hatred and hammering you've heaped on it to get it to the green.
-Dick Brooks

Short game quotes from celebrities and writers

Golf is wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours watching somebody else putt.
-Will Rogers

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
-Ernest Hemingway

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
-Fletcher Knebel

Half of golf is fun, the other half is putting.
-Peter Dobereiner

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
-P.G. Wodehouse

Never putt until the cup stops moving.
-Bruce Lansky

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.
-Thomas Boswell

Go ahead and putt, you are not interrupting my conversation.
-Robert E. Zorn

Short game quotes of unknown origin

Even God has to practice his putting.
-Traditional saying

Old golfers never die, they just putter away.
-Traditional saying

The short game is definitely quotable!

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