They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.
"He's the only player I have ever known to get an ovation from the fans on the practice tee. I've seen him playing practice rounds before a tournament and half the gallery was made up of other professionals. Somebody asked me once, Who's better? Jack Nicklaus or Ben Hogan? Well, my answer was, I saw Nicklaus watch Hogan practice. But I never saw Hogan watch Nicklaus."
I launched far more (clubs) because they expected me to than I did because I was mad at anything that had gone wrong with my golf.
After a while, it became showmanship, plain and simple.
Toward the end of one of his infamous high- volume, tempermental, club-throwing rounds.
Tommey Bolt asked his caddie for a club recommendation for a shot of about 155 yards.
His caddie said: "I'd say either a 3-iron or a wedge, sir."
"A 3- iron or a wedge?" asked Bolt. "What kind of stupid, ****** choice is that?"
"Those are the only two clubs you have left in the your bag, sir." said the caddie.
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.
Pro golf is dull. It's a chorus line of blond towheads you can't even tell apart.