Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
George Archer
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.
A.P. Herbert
Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle.
Unknown
Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists
Heywood Hale Broun
"After all, golf is only a game," said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is a kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying
P.G. Wodehouse,
Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway