Golf Quotes & Sayings, Quotations For Golfers - Page 9
Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Bruce Crampton
The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don’t really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.
Robert Browning (A History of Golf)
A “gimme” can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers, neither of whom can putt very well.
Anonymous
May thy ball lie in green pastures… and not in still waters.
Anonymous
The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
Anonymous
I’m hitting the woods just great, but I’m having a terrible time getting out of them.
Harry Toscano
The proper score for a businessman golfer is 90. If he is better than that he is neglecting his business. If he’s worse, he’s neglecting his golf.
St Andrews
Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain’t no game.
Burt Shotten
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn’t a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
Lee Trevino
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams
How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It’s simple. I missed a four-foot putt for an eleven.
Arnold Palmer
Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don’t. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don’t want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.
Greg Norman
I’ve heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks – No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard’s excellent Tennis for Beginners.
Henry Beard (Golfing – 1985)
Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players’ minds the next time out.
Sam Snead
A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.
Osbert Sitwell
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer
Keep your sense of humor. There’s enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you’re supposed to enjoy.
Amy Alcott
Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse
Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.
Harvey Penick
Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.
Bobby Nichols
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
Lyndon B. Johnson
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.
H.L. Mencken
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Will Rogers
My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
Lee Trevino
You’ve got to be rich to have a swing like that.
Bob Hope
A passion, an obsession, a romance, a nice acquaintanceship with trees, sand, and water.
Bob Ryan
I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.
Gerald Ford
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it’s called the PGA Tour.
Attributed to Alex Hay
Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, “Will you look at that golf path? Pure pea gravel.”
Jeff Cesario
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