Which golfer said "the more I practice the luckier I get"?

I recall hearing Tom Watson say it first. I don't think he's plagaristic.

Gary Player

Gary Player

Defunetely Gary Player a great player who was incredibly fit and worked enormously hard. He could hold an iron out between his first and second fingers. I had the pleasure of meeting him at Mont St Angel GC Monaco on the 12th September 2001. Unfortunately the tournament being played that week was called off because of the events in NY the previous day

Gary Player said it originally but its such a good phrase it has been repeated so many times, and you are right in that many people think it was Arnold palmer.

The saying is kind of now associated with golf in general.

From what I recall, it was evidently said by Gary Player to an observer watching him playing bunker shots, when one went in the hole, the observer said "that was lucky, wasn't it" to which Player replied "the more I practice the luckier I get"

All of you must be to young to remember. It was Jerry Barber who won the 1961 PGA Golf Tournament.

A person told him, that he was the luckiest putter in the world. Jerry's answer was "yes and the more I practices the luckier I get"

It was actually Samuel Goldwyn who said, "the harder I work, the luckier I get". You hear it now repeated by people from all fields (I heard it said by 'Harold' from Neighbours on The Wright Stuff last week) who espouse the importance of hard work.

I always understood it to have come from Gary Player.

Lee Trevino

I think it was Gary Player , thats what I have always read .