Golf Quotes

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

It seems a little bit like the home of the U.S. Open in the States. For all the venues of the U.S. Open this is more synonymous for the U.S. Open than any other one.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

When I got to the first tee on the first day, to hear the cheers, it was like all the oxygen got sucked out. It was hard to pull the club back.

She knows how to hang on to my money. I wish her mom were the same way.

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

Once you try, golf is the hardest game you'll ever play.

Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.

Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.

The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.

I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.

You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

Golf and dating don't mix.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

It's cool now to play golf.

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

I've always said the players don't build up rivalries themselves, people from the outside build up the rivalries. I just want to play good golf. I want to try and keep winning golf tournaments.

If you hit a bad shot, just tell yourself it is great to be alive, relaxing and walking around on a beautiful golf course. The next shot will be better.

The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.

My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.

There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this.

I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.

I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.

I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

I want to keep playing good golf.

Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.

The meeting with Prince William took place at the White House because Prince William wanted to see where the president spent his days, but the golf course was covered in snow.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.