Playing Course Quotes by Walter Hagen

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

— Walter Hagen

Don't forget to stop and smell the roses.

— Walter Hagen

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

— Walter Hagen

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

— 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…

— Walter Hagen

It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.

— Walter Hagen

You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best,…

— Walter Hagen

I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when…

— Walter Hagen

That's the easiest 69 I ever made.

— Walter Hagen

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

— Walter Hagen

No one remembers who came in second.

— Walter Hagen

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

— Walter Hagen