Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones
Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end. — Chuck Hogan
Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time. — Mark Calcavecchia
Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within. — Bob Toski
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time. — Tony Lema
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies. — Bobby Jones
Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. — Lee Trevino
Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it. — Bobby Jones
Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens. — Bob Hope
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots. — Ben Hogan
Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. — Rick Reilly
Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play. — Gary Player
They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken. — Ray Floyd
The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it. — Bob Allen
Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again. — Roberto De Vicenzo
Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting. — Peter Dobereiner
Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links. — George Archer
Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament. — Karrie Webb
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. — Rogers Hornsby
Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot. — Dave Marr
Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf. — Brent Musburger
Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap. — Bobby Nichols
One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. — John Gunther
Top 10 Golf Game Quotes
I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game. — Don Rickles
But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point. — Payne Stewart
The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules. — Bobby Jones
I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced. — Lee Trevino
In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths. — Harvey Penick
For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind. — Harry Vardon
I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation. — Greg Norman
I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies
Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game. — Phil Blackmar
You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it. — Walter Hagen
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
Bad Golf Game Quotes
Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. — Amy Alcott
No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast. — Sam Snead
The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top. — Arnold Palmer
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself. — Ernie Els
There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company. — Tommy Bolt
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. — A. A. Milne
I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it's silly to let the game get to you. When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I'm breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club. — Bob Hope
There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game. — William Davis
You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones. — Mac O'Grady
Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship. — Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
Golf Mental Game Quotes
It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve. — Lee Westwood
This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality. — Payne Stewart
Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do? — Conor McGregor
It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special. — Tiger Woods
Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it. — Vijay Singh
Golf Course Quotes
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. — Bobby Jones
Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea. — Anne Sexton
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. — Jello Biafra
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it. — Jack Nicklaus
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. — Bobby Jones
I never learned anything from a match that I won. — Bobby Jones
Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case. — Bobby Jones
In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing. — Bobby Jones
If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy. — Jack Nicklaus
You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there. — Rory McIlroy
Playing Golf Quotes
A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe
The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes. — Bobby Jones
I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off. — John Daly
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth. — Bernie Mac
After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me. — Seve Ballesteros
The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win. — Phil Mickelson
All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf. — Harvey Penick
A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course. — Mike Weir
No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par. — Bobby Jones
Good Golf Quotes
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain
Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive. — Harvey Penick
I am tired of all these golfers who are happy with second place. The only one who will like you if you come in second place is your wife and your dog. And that is only if you have a good wife and a good dog. — Gary Player
A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one. — Ben Sayers
John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him. — Nick Faldo
It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot. — Nubar Gulbenkian
Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game. — Gay Brewer
A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good. — Gary Player
A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes. — Ben Crenshaw
It’s always good to play with big players, you know. — Paul Pogba
Golf Putting Quotes
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get. — Brian Tracy
The most important shot in golf is the next one. — Ben Hogan
Never concede the putt that beats you. — Harry Vardon
Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine. — Lee Trevino
Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money. — Lee Trevino
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye
The more I practice, the luckier I get. — Jerry Barber
A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed. — Henry Beard
I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. — Ernest Hemingway
Golf Tournaments Quotes
I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family. — Terry Bradshaw
In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to. — Pat Summerall
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can. — Jack Nicklaus
It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do. — Rory McIlroy
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments. — Lou Holtz
When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make. — Annika Sorenstam
There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that. — Arnold Palmer
I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself. — Jack Nicklaus
It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends. — Jared Leto
Golf Swing Quotes
My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. — Lee Trevino
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. — Ben Hogan
A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing. — Payne Stewart
I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right. — Ben Crenshaw
Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you. — Lloyd Mangrum
If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands. — Gary Player
Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling. — Madonna Ciccone
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it. — Jimmy Demaret
I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident . — Harvey Penick
Great Golf Quotes
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you. — Seve Ballesteros
The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino
One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. — Peter Jacobsen
You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. — Lee Trevino
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. — Sam Snead
You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them. — Jimmy Demaret
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying. — Bobby Jones
The mind messes up more shots than the body. — Tommy Bolt
Golf Ball Quotes
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. — Jack Lemmon
I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything. — Bobby Jones
Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks. — O. Henry
He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150. — Bob Hope
You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. — Grantland Rice
If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? — Larry Nelson
I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole. — Peter Jacobsen
It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg. — J. C. Snead
There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls. — Lee Trevino
Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community. — Sayings
Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish. — Harry Vardon
Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL. — Hunter S. Thompson
The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes to play, all of them different, every week; and all around him is sand, trees, grass, water, wind and 143 other players. In addition, the game is 50 percent mental, so his biggest enemy is himself. — Dan Jenkins
One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again. — Bobby Jones
In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart. — Harvey Penick
Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting. — Walter Hagen
Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill. — Rodney Dangerfield
Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf. — Gary Player
Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead. — Alister MacKenzie
It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling. — Al McGuire
Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you'll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player. — Greg Norman
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette. — Grantland Rice
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind. — Tom Watson
I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me. — Jordan Spieth
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