The Playing Lesson Quotes

“morning drive from St. Augustine to Ocala is spectacular, all back roads. It’s a three-hour drive through the center of the state and a chance to time-travel into old Florida. You can drive for ten minutes without seeing another vehicle, by which I mean a truck. You go through the towns of Hastings and Citra, over rivers and”
― Michael Bamberger, The Playing Lesson: A Duffer's Year Among the Pros

“I have never felt a similar urge”
― Michael Bamberger, The Playing Lesson: A Duffer's Year Among the Pros

“Ballard had made an intensive study of Ben Hogan and his “half a left arm.” It was a phrase Hogan used, as a right-handed golfer, to keep the left arm, from the top of the shoulder to the elbow, connected to the body throughout the swing. Ballard devoted his teaching life to this principle. All Ballard players—Curtis, Rocco, Sutton, Luis—make that move. They’re zealots about it.”
― Michael Bamberger, The Playing Lesson: A Duffer's Year Among the Pros