Golf Quotes

All I've got against it is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse
Eric Linklater

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

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

It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.

Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt
Fletcher Knebel

Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.
Jimmy DeMaret

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using "an outside agency" and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
Henry Longhurst

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
George Deukmejian

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big

There's no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.
Art Spander

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done

Golf is Life. If you can't take golf, you can't take life

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

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

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

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that

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







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