golf Quotes

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

Sam Snead

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

My best score ever was 103, but I've only been playing 15 years

Alex Karris

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

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

Patty Sheenan

There are no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball in the cup that counts

Brian Swarbrick

The harder you work, the luckier you get."

Gary Player

Victory is everything. You can spend the money, but you can never spend the memories.

Ken Venturi

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it

Jimmy Demaret

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle

Jackie Gleason

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

Gerald Ford