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Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover. -- Alexandra Stoddard
You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver. -- Will Rogers
I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954. -- Lee Trevino
Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead. -- Tommy Bolt
When I'm on with my putting, I'm as good a putter as there is, probably. -- Mike Weir
I've always used a mallet putter on tour. I get too much face rotation with a blade. -- Lexi Thompson
I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game. -- Molly Sims
The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. -- Sam Snead
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. -- Sam Snead
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
I was the first to win a major with a belly putter, and I've spent hours practicing that way, so I hope they don't ban anchoring. -- Keegan Bradley
I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth on that. I've actually worked with a belly putter. -- Matt Kuchar
I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament. -- Greg Norman
I will fall in love with any golf course that you have to drive the ball straight. You understand what I'm saying? That's my advantage. My advantage wasn't putting. In fact, I wasn't even a great putter or a good putter. -- Lee Trevino
It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes. -- Gilbert Newton Lewis
You should never get set over the ball and then aim your putter face. If you do it in that order, you can easily lose sight of your intended line. Instead, aim the face down your line first, then settle your body into position. -- Ernie Els
I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls. -- Fred Couples
I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form. -- Arnold Palmer
Right before I start the putter back, I think about making solid contact. This brings your attention to the back of the ball and helps keep your head still at impact, which is a must. Many amateurs take a peek down the line too soon, and that can cause all sorts of mis-hits. -- Ernie Els
I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I've played with golfers who've done that, and I really hate to see it. If I did something like that, my dad would come get the putter and hit me upside the head with it. I knew better. -- Lucas Black
My only focus after I start the putter away from the ball is keeping the back of my left wrist as fat as possible from start to finish. This is critical to keeping the putterhead and ball moving straight down the target line after impact. It's also how Rory Mcllroy squares his putterface, and obviously it works for him. -- Jordan Spieth
With ills unending strives the putter off. -- Epictetus
Happiness is a long walk with a putter. -- Greg Norman
The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree. -- Brian Weiss
Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well. -- Craig Stadler
I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf. -- Padraig Harrington
You can't have problems with hand movement, if you're going to be a good putter. -- Donald Trump
A good putter is a match for anyone. A bad putter is a match for no one. -- Harvey Penick
It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her. -- Gary Player
I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green. -- Gardner Dickinson
The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole. -- Julius Boros
Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter. -- Billy Graham
I had no problem going into retirement mode, ... I do what other retired guys do. I putter around the house and travel. -- Drew Carey
The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first? -- Jack Burke, Jr.
I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now. -- Ernie Els
The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy. -- Tony Lema
There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter. -- Kathy Whitworth
A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one. -- Ben Sayers
I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start. -- Roz Chast
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
I started hitting the ball a lot better a few weeks ago, and just the putter wasn't working. And putting a new putter in the bag last week, it just helped. -- Retief Goosen
The fact is all golfers are equipment junkies and professional golfers are the worst of the lot. They'll do anything to find the perfect putter even though they'll insist no such instrument exists. -- Dave Marr
When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake. -- Ken Green

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