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
Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting. — Peter Dobereiner
Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf. — Brent Musburger
The best exercise for golfers is golfing. — Bobby Jones
Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them. — Kevin Costner
Golf is a non-violent game played violently from within. — Bob Toski
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots. — Ben Hogan
Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world. — Jack Nicklaus
Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament. — Karrie Webb
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management. — Ben Hogan
Short Great Golf Quotes
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character. — Arnold Palmer
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. — Pete Dye
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. — Bobby Jones
Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time. — Mark Calcavecchia
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
The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing. — George Duncan
The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it. — Bob Allen
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. — Ben Hogan
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it. — Jimmy Demaret
Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have. — Harvey Penick
Silence is a source of great strength.
Good Golf Quotes
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
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
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it. — Jack Nicklaus
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. — Mark Twain
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
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
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
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
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
Playing Golf Quotes
A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb. — Marilyn Monroe
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
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. — Bobby Jones
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
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
Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it. — Bobby Jones
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
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
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
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
I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me. — Seve Ballesteros
I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age. — Nora Johnson
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 need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker. — Ronnie O'Sullivan
Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling. — Madonna Ciccone
I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf. — Ichiro Suzuki
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha. — Hal Boyle
They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that? — Casey Stengel
Golf is a nice game, but that's all. It's never going to be an exciting game to watch on TV. It's not a circus and never will be one. The audience for golf is not going to change significantly. It's always going to be people who play it, understand it, and love it. — Jack Nicklaus
Golf Course Quotes
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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. — Bobby Jones
To a great mind, nothing is little.
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
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
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced. — Lee Trevino
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
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
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. — Tiger Woods
I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein. — John Daly
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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
There are only two types of player-those who keep their nerves under control and win championships, and those who do not. — Harry Vardon
The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy. — Bobby Jones
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke? — John Daly
When it blows here, even the seagulls walk. — Nick Faldo
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
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get. — Brian Tracy
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
The most important shot in golf is the next one. — Ben Hogan
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
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
Humorous Golf Quotes
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. — Grantland Rice
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
Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens. — Bob Hope
I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt. Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying, "Let's get up here before we get killed!" — Henny Youngman
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret
Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor. — Martin Sheen
Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out. — Anne, Princess Royal
I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot. — Don Adams
I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead. — Bob Hope
Golf Game Quotes
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
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. — 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
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
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
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
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
Funny Golf Quotes
My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. — Lee Trevino
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
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. — Sylvester Stallone
There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray. — Lee Trevino
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. — Sam Snead
Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money. — Lee Trevino
You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them. — Jimmy Demaret
I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right. — Ben Crenshaw
Golf Life Quotes
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. — B. C. Forbes
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
You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. — Lee Trevino
A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole. — Mac O'Grady
Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence. — Harvey Penick
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
A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing. — Payne Stewart
The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. — Tiger Woods
The mind messes up more shots than the body. — Tommy Bolt
Never concede the putt that beats you. — Harry Vardon
The more I practice, the luckier I get. — Jerry Barber
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
Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap. — Bobby Nichols
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
Yeah, after each of my downhill putts. — Homero Blancas
I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole. — Peter Jacobsen
My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. — Ed Furgol
It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg. — J. C. Snead
Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot. — Dave Marr
A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good. — Gary Player
Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff. — David Feherty
On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied. — Bruce Lansky
A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill. — Ben Hogan
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
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