Arnold Palmer

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Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history. Dating back to 1955, he won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and the circuit now known as PGA Tour Champions. Nicknamed The King, Palmer was one of golf's most popular stars and seen as a trailblazer, the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s.

Character and the Mind

How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It’s simple – I missed a four foot putt for an eleven

Cheating

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.

Famous Golf Courses

On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it’s still played that...

Putting

Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience

Character and the Mind

Success depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character

Character and the Mind

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done

Inspirational

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

Philosophy and Advice

According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant...

The Swing

There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice

Philosophy and Advice

They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.

The Swing

You can talk to a fade but a hook won’t listen..

Arnold Palmer

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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant...

There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice

They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won’t listen..

Worth a Smile

Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well...

The course is so long, I had to take the curvature of the Earth into consideration. 4.8 (46)

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name… and they say golf is a quiet game 4.8 (46)

Golf is a good walk spoiled 4.8 (46)

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. 4.8 (46)

Golfing life

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It’s just a game and should be treated as such....

Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective. 4.8 (46)

Whoever said “Practice makes perfect” obviously never played golf 4.8 (46)

Golf is an easy game…It’s just hard to play 4.8 (46)

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in....

Inspirational

Days when you just don’t have it, you don’t pack it in, you give it everything you’ve got. You grind it out. 4.8 (46)

I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you...

To find a man’s true character, play golf with him 4.8 (46)

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation 4.8 (46)

Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching...

The Golf Swing

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year...

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball 4.8 (46)

Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together 4.8 (46)

A golfer has to train his swing on the practice tee, then trust it on the course 4.8 (46)

The point is that it doesn’t matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like...

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