Golf Quotes

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.

Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.

No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.

I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.

Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.

I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands.

I dont play golf or tennis, I dont ski, I dont snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

Golf is a stupid game. You tee up this little ball, really this tiny ball. Then you hit it, try to find it, hit it. And the goal is to get it into a little hole placed in a hard spot.

I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.

When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

The harder you work, the luckier you become.

I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.

Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.

There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?

I'm a golf junkie, but I'm a sports fan. I'll watch pretty much everything that's on.

Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.

My game is like a cross between karaoke and rap: crap.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resiliency.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!