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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented

Arnold Palmer

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron

Lee Trevino

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie

George Deukmejian

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes

Gene Littler

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball

Dave Barry

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

Jack Nicklaus

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

Golf was once a rich man's sport, but now it has millions of poor players

Unknown

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law

H. G. Wells

Golf, more than most games, has a number of cliches, often successfully disguised as "tips"

Unknown

Golf: A five mile walk punctuated with disappointments

Unknown

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser

Arnold Palmer

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

Winston Churchill

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike

Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

Dave Barry

In primitive society, when native tribes beat the ground with clubs and yelled, it was called witchcraft; today, in civilized society, it is called golf

Unknown

When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It's obsession at first sight

Thomas Boswell

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth

Samuel Johnson

Golf is a game in which the slowest people in the world are those in front of you, and the fastest are those behind

Unknown

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other

Florence King

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy

George Bernard Shaw

Golf always makes me so damned angry

King George V

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose

Woodrow T. Wilson

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind

Tom Watson

All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse

Eric Linklater

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