Quotes about golf
golf should-have carbon
Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage. Thomas Friedman
golf majors tournaments
A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists. Thomas Boswell
golf knowing mind
As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole.
golf play iron
At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.
golf broken may
I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.
golf self way
Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted. William J. Clinton
golf men games
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. Westbrook Pegler
golf cycling peaceful
A lot of celebrities golf because they want to be away. For them it's a chance to get away and be peaceful. For me it's peaceful to ride [cycling]. Robin Williams
golf iron doe
His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.
golf men white-man
Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.
golf perfect clubs
Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart. Robert Redford
golf film metaphor
I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.
golf numbers great-golf
There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s. Retief Goosen
golf player growing
Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.
golf guy conditioning
Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.
golf play long
If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium? Robert Harris
golf games two
In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.
golf simple player
Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.
golf moon mountain-ranges
Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet. Robert Ballard
golf finding-yourself woods
You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later. Richard Roeper
golf noses firsts
The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK. Sandra Bullock
golf swings tonight
If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight. Sandy Koufax
golf men self
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman. William Howard Taft
golf want millionaire
I don't want to be a millionaire; just live like one. Walter Hagen
golf years games
It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.
golf tonight genes
Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.
golf missing
Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!
golf missing tragedy
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
golf play imagination
Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.
golf play skills
Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.
golf feet balls
Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.
golf practice waste
What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.
golf men hands
Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.