Golf Quotes & Sayings, Quotations For Golfers


You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
Bobby Jones

A golfer’s diet: live on greens as much as possible.
Anonymous

Golf: A five mile walk punctuated with disappointments.
Anonymous

“Play it as it lies” is one of the fundamental dictates of golf. The other is “Wear it if it clashes.”
Henry Beard (Golfing - 1985)

Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
Harry Vardon

If I can hit a curveball, why can’t I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?
Larry Nelson

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer

I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.
Chi Chi Rodriguez

Golf is the hardest game in the world to play and the easiest to cheat at.
Dave Hill

The secret of good golf is to hit the ball hard, straight and not too often.
Anonymous

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
Bobby Jones

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.
Bobby Jones

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.
Rick Reilly

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.
Martin Sheen

Golf always makes me so damned angry.
King George V

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.
Chi Chi Rodriguez

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren’t penalized for being on grass.
Bob Hope

Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.
Lloyd Mangrum

Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you only cheat yourself.
Tony Lema

Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.
George Archer

Many a golfer prefers a golf cart to a caddy because the cart cannot count, criticize or laugh.
Anonymous

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you are playing a game. You are playing old man par.
Bobby Jones

Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime, in which you can exhaust yourself but never your subject.
David Forgan

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
Jack Nicklaus

Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
George Bernard Shaw

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.
Martin Sheen

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.
Tom Watson

Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.
Cary Middlecoff

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