Golf Quotes & Sayings, Quotations For Golfers - Page 4



The most important shot in golf is the next one.
Ben Hogan

If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf.
Percey Boomer

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes

The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
Bobby Jones

Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
Grantland Rice

To some golfers, the greatest handicap is the ability to add correctly.
Anonymous

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.
Adlai Stevenson

Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
Winston Churchill

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
George Archer

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.
George Deukmejian

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.
Jack Nicklaus

The members who command the best service at your golf club either have the lowest handicaps or the highest bar bills.
Anonymous

You can’t call it a sport. You don’t run, jump, you don’t shoot, you don’t pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don’t match.
Steve Sax

I don’t like watching golf on TV. I can’t stand whispering.
David Brenner

The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.
Bill Clinton

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
Jack Nicklaus

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
Anonymous

Golf was once a rich man’s sport, but now it has millions of poor players.
Anonymous

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

I never learned anything from a match that I won.
Bobby Jones

It’s easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister’s fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.
Bruce McCall

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
Al Boliska

It’s good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain

Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.
Art Rosenbaum

Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.
Henry Cotton

Golf is a game in which the slowest people in the world are those in front of you, and the fastest are those behind.
Anonymous

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
Bobby Jones

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson

The better you putt, the bolder you play.
Don January

“After all, golf is only a game,” said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is a kink in their character. They simply don’t realise what they are saying.
P.G. Wodehouse

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