Golf Quotes & Sayings, Quotations For Golfers - Page 10
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
I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
Bob Hope
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
The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.
Michael Green
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Sam Snead
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
P.G. Wodehouse
That son of a bitch was able to hole a putt over 60 feet of peanut brittle.
Lloyd Mangrum about Bobby Locke
One minute you’re bleeding. The next minute you’re hemorrhaging. The next minute you’re painting the Mona Lisa.
Mac O’Grady (Describing a typical round of golf)
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.
Michael Bamberger
If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
Dean Martin
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.
Ken Venturi on Art Rosenbaum
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
One almost expects one of the players to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to reach the greens.
Pete Alfano
His nerve, his memory, and I can’t remember the third thing.
Lee Trevino
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
When you hear someone shout “You da man,” if he ain’t shouting at Arnold Palmer, then it ain’t da man.
Ron Green, Charlotte Observer
If I’m on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.
Bob Hope
The worst club in my bag is my brain.
Chris Perry
I’m a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn’t help me. They’d have to put me in prison, and then I’d talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.
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
I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realized that my life wasn’t so bad.
Steve Pate
One under a tree, one under a bush, one under the water.
Lee Trevino (Describing how he was one under during a tournament)
Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one.
Martha Beckman
A good drive on the 18th hole has stopped many a golfer from giving up the game.
Anonymous
It’s so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
J.C. Snead
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
Jack Nicklaus
If your opponent has trouble remembering whether he shot a six or a seven, he probably shot an eight or worse.
Anonymous
If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.
Harry Vardon
A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
Anonymous
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