35 Fairway Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous fairway quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational fairway quotes. Hopefully, these fairway quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your fairway knowledge!
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Short Fairway Quotes
- As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. — Ben Hogan
- When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller. — Bobby Locke
- I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there. — Hal Sutton
- The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file. — Sam Snead
- That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway. — Colin Montgomerie
People Writing About Fairway
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Ben Hogan |
57 | 793 |
 Hal Sutton |
12 | 146 |
 Sam Snead |
64 | 570 |
 Colin Montgomerie |
9 | 11 |
More Fairway Quotes
I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me. — Seve Ballesteros
In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron. — Lee Trevino
Control is the main thing, and the tee shot is the most important shot in golf. You've got to hit the fairway before you have a good chance of putting the ball close to the pin. You can be the greatest iron player in the world, but if you're in the boondocks it won't do you any good. — Ben Hogan
I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them. — Johnny Miller
I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course. — Annika Sorenstam
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars. — Joseph Conrad
A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway. — Jim Bishop
Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart. — Robert Redford
It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky. — P. G. Wodehouse
I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf. — John Shelby Spong
I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come. — Yani Tseng
The fourth tee brings out a mixture of excitement and anticipation, for about 220 yards down the fairway you catch a glimpse of Stillwater Cove, and realize you'll be walking along this spectacular meeting of land and sea for the next two hours. — Doug Ferguson
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. — Tommy Bolt
When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall. — Dan Jenkins
I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference. — Barry Lane
I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants. — Sam Snead
When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense. — Aaron Baddeley
It was neat to see a plaque on the 18th fairway, and go up there and kind of look at the green and just remembering the moment. — Paula Creamer
My new long anhyzer disc and controlled fairway driver. It gets the same beautiful flippy hyzer S shot as my Surge, I just don't have to throw it as hard. This makes it the most valuable to me on uncertain terrain where my footwork is compromised. A stand-still driver shot is now no longer a problem. — Liz Carr
Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough. — Henry Beard
Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle. — Jackie Gleason
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours. — Colman McCarthy
Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded. — Bob Hope
The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there. — Ken Venturi
Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner. — Ben Hogan
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