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Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive

Harvey Penick

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf

Bob Hope

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bertrand Russell

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

Grantland Rice

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

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.î

Tiger Woods

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish

Sam Snead

The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

I feel for the sponsors HSBC because they put up a lot of money. This is the richest first prize in all of golf one million pounds

Michael Campbell

The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required of a steady player, the odds are that one day you will hit the ball straight, hard, and out of sight. This is the essential frustration of this excruciating sport. For when you've done it once, you make the fundamental error of asking yourself why you can't do this all the time. The answer to this question is simple: the first time was a fluke

Colin Bowles

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Winston Churchill

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club don't you?

Ben Hogan

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore', shoot six and write down five

Paul Harvey

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?

Jimmy Demaret

I know I'm getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators

Gerald Ford

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes at its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.