Golf Quotes & Sayings, Quotations For Golfers - Page 2



Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth

Golf isn’t a game, it’s a choice that one makes with one’s life.
Charles Rosin

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop

If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.
Horace G. Hutchinson

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
G.K. Chesterton

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance.
Alistair Cooke

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle.
Anonymous

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.
Heywood Hale Broun

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
Tommy Armour

There’s no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies.
Anonymous

Golf is not a game of great shots. It’s a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
Gene Littler

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
Sam Snead

Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.
Jimmy DeMaret

There are two things you can do with your head down – play golf and pray.
Lee Trevino

If you’re caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
Lee Trevino

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get worse.
Anonymous

I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.
Attributed to Miller Barber & Lee Trevino

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

Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it’s wrong but you can’t keep away from her.
Val Doonican

Baseball reveals character, golf exposes it.
Ernie Banks

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
Ken Harrelson

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

I know I am getting better at golf because I’m hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald Ford

They throw their clubs backwards, and that’s wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don’t have to walk any extra distance to get it.
Tommy Bolt (About the tempers of young players)

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
Abba Eban

Golf is an ideal diversion but a ruinous disease.
B.C. Forbes

I’d play every day if I could. It’s cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.
Brent Musburger

The average golfer doesn’t play golf. He attacks it.
Jack Burke

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors.
Paul O’Neil

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron

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