Golf Quotes

I'm pretty much an open book. I am a fanatic golfer and golf nut. If I have three free hours any day, my first choice is to run to the golf course if the weather is nice.

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.

No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here.

I do not look back at what might have been. If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs.

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

I've come to realize that I perform best when I'm letting my subconscious mind hit the ball and my conscious mind is otherwise occupied.

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?

Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.

Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.

The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's impossible to make any kind of a turn. It was kind of a one-handed chili-dip.

I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.

Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.

My parents didn't play golf.

Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.

Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.

Golf never ceases to be a challenge, even when it really is just you and the ball out there and nobody else.

I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.

Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

I like the Miami because I could play golf all winter.

A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

I've drawn a lot of inspiration from people who have supported me, golfers who have helped me. If it wasn't for the game of golf I'd probably be mowing the greens back in Latrobe.

I think the people I have met have meant a great deal to me, more than any shot I ever hit. I will always remember some golf shots, but others I would like to forget.

I still enjoy what I do. I haven't been playing much golf and none since I dislocated my shoulder, but I come to the office every day.

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

I have a psychological feeling about things - and if I have something that I need to accomplish and I accomplish it, I let down after that, and that happened to me in golf.

I was born in 1929, that was the depression, so the golf course was manned by my father and two guys, they worked for my dad and they took me with them everywhere they went. And it was fun.

I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father.

We just became very good friends [with Dwight Eisenhower], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.

One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot.

Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.

The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.

I had a 15th club in my bag.

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.