Golf Quotes & Sayings, Quotations For Golfers - Page 6



A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
Harry Vardon

I don’t like going to the mall. I’m not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good.
Michelle Wie

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using “an outside agency” and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
Henry Longhurst

A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.
Ben Sayers

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
Marc Anthony

Golf is a better game played downhill.
Jack Nicklaus

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
Ben Hogan

Few learn golf in a lifetime.
Grantland Rice

If you want to take long walks, take long walks. If you want to hit things with sticks, hit things with sticks. But there’s no excuse for combining the two and putting the results on TV. Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns.
National Lampoon

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.
Anonymous

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I’ve played the game for 40 years and I still haven’t the slightest idea how to play.
Gary Player

Every golfer scores better when he learns his capabilities.
Tommy Armour

A good golf partner is one who’s always slightly worse than you are….that’s why I get so many calls to play with friends.
Anonymous

I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven’t forgotten how.
Jennifer Wyatt

I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt. Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying “Let’s get up here before we get killed!”
Anonymous

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
Bobby Jones

Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.
Dr Bob Rotella

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.
Mickey Gilley

Golf is a spiritual game. It’s like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
Amy Alcott

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o’clock and make it go toward 12 o’clock. But make sure you’re in the same time zone.
Chi Chi Rodriguez

Golf is said to be a humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses or else reckless of consequences.
Bobby Jones

All I’ve got against it is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse.
Eric Linklater

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20 percent of the time, you’re the best.
Jack Nicklaus

In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference.
Anonymous

Isn’t it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?
Bob Hope

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
Ben Hogan

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.
Anonymous

I have come to think that a person grows in his regard for the rules as he improves his game. The best players come to love golf so much they hate to see it violated in any way.
Michael Murphy

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
Gary Player

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