"Golf is a game of luck. The more I practice, the luckier I get."

Ben Hogan, one of my favorite quotes.

Although the wording is different, that line comes from the 1920s writer Coleman Cox, who specialized in producing pithy quotes like it:

http://books.google.com/books?id=lXlnyqNjN7AC&lpg=PA63&#...

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/