Percy Boomer > Quotes

“A well-taught golfer rarely breaks down and rarely goes off his game completely and if he does strike a bad patch one or at the most two lessons will pull him back again. But patching up a badly taught player is one of the most difficult and thankless tasks a teacher can undertake. I have refused to take on hundreds of such cases, because I do not believe that any instruction that is not part of a consistent system can be of any permanent benefit.”
― Percy Boomer, On Learning Golf: A Valuable Guide to Better Golf

“You were not conscious of the years of toil that must have gone to the building of that superb technique. Remember that when next you envy the effortless ease with which a crack Pro drives!”
― Percy Boomer, On Learning Golf: A Valuable Guide to Better Golf

“The truth is that though I learned the game in Jersey as soon as I could walk and Harry Vardon was my boyhood idol, I was not what is known as a natural golfer. There is nothing instinctive about my game. Everything I have ever done in golf I had to learn to do. Maybe having to teach myself was not a bad preparation for my future work of teaching others.”
― Percy Boomer, On Learning Golf: A Valuable Guide to Better Golf