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- Category: Authors
- Category: Authors - A
- Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
- Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.
- Category: Amy Alcott
- Category: Anonymous
- A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponents’ luck
- Confidence comes naturally with success. But success comes only to those who are confident
- Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle.
- Golf is a sport in which the ball lies poorly but the player well
- Golf is an easy game…It’s just hard to play
- Golf?! You hit down to make the ball go up. You swing left and the ball goes right. The lowest score wins. And, the winner buys the drinks.
- I wish I could play my normal game…just once
- If there’s a storm rolling in, you’ll be having the game of your life.
- Is my friend in the bunker or is the b++tard on the green?
- My most consistent and reliable shot is always the double at the 19th
- Real golfers don’t cry when they line up their fourth putt
- Real golfers don’t miss putts, they get robbed
- Real Golfers go to work to relax
- The stages of golf are Sudden Collapse – Radical Change – Complete Frustration – Slow Improvement – Brief Mastery – Sudden Collapse
- The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name… and they say golf is a quiet game
- There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing!
- When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit
- Whoever said “Practice makes perfect” obviously never played golf
- Category: George Archer
- Category: Tommy Armour
- Category: Authors - B
- A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.
- I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you
- I’d like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me
- If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don’t have to waste energy going back to pick it up
- If you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right
- It’s much easier to have one swing thought than many
- The golf swing has been endlessly analyzed, and yet it still remains a mystery. And only one secret has emerged, one swing of thought that always works. And that thought is: Don’t think. But you can’t just forget not to think. You must remember not to remember to think.
- The point is that it doesn’t matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.
- There is no movement in golf that cannot be made more difficult through diligent study and practice.
- To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.
- What’s nice about our tour is you can’t remember your bad shots
- You know you’re on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do
- Category: Bob Bruce
- Category: Deane Beman
- Category: Henry Beard
- Category: Seve Ballesteros
- Category: Tommy Bolt
- Category: Authors - C
- Every shot counts. The three-foot putt is as important as the 300-yard drive.
- Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do
- 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.
- Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will
- Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place
- Golfers have analyzed the game in order to find the secret. There is no secret.
- If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry on the true spirit of the game.
- Missing a short putt does not mean you have to hit your next drive out of bounds
- My golf game’s gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake
- That was a great game of golf, fellers
- The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.
- Category: Ben Crenshaw
- Category: Bing Crosby
- Category: Bruce Crampton
- Category: Henry Cotton
- Category: Winston Churchill
- Category: Authors - D
- Half of golf is fun. The other half is putting.
- Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair
- The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top
- They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
- Category: Gardener Dickinson
- Category: Pete Dye
- Category: Peter Dobereiner
- Category: Authors - E
- Category: Authors - F
- GOLF is a science, the study of a lifetime in which you may exhaust yourself but never your subject.
- I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators
- I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.
- Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.
- Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together
- The course is so long, I had to take the curvature of the Earth into consideration.
- They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken
- Category: David Feherty
- Category: David Forgan
- Category: Doug Ford
- Category: Gerald Ford
- Category: Nick Faldo
- Category: Raymond Floyd
- Category: Authors - G
- Category: Authors - H
- A well hit golf shot is a feeling that goes up the shaft, right through your hands and into your heart.
- Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it’s also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.
- Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you’ve had them and you’re not even off the first tee.
- Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore’, shoot six and write down five.
- Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.
- I couldn’t wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
- I just hope I don’t have to explain all the times I’ve used His name in vain when I get up there
- I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games
- I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
- If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.
- If The Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
- If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play at it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
- If you worry about the ones you missed, you are going to keep missing them.
- In your approach to golf, no one can tell you what to do. Just as in life, you are presented with options. It’s up to you to decide which ones suit you best.
- Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club don’t you?
- Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing
- The average golfer’s problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
- The most important shot in golf is the next one
- The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball
- There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection
- This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win
- We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot
- You don’t have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today’s game. It may be far from your best, but that’s all you’ve got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.
- You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about
- You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Category: A P Herbert
- Category: Ben Hogan
- Category: Bob Hope
- Category: Buddy Hackett
- Category: Butch Harmon
- Category: Horace Hutchinson
- Category: Napoleon Hill
- Category: Paul Harvey
- Category: Sandra Haynie
- Category: Tyrell Hatton
- Category: Walter Hagen
- Category: Authors - I
- Category: Authors - J
- Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.
- Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears.
- Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case
- Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
- Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it
- Golf is the only game I know of that actually gets harder the longer you play it
- In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing
- It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
- Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards
- One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again
- Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either
- The better you putt, the bolder you play.
- The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
- You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
- You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about
- Category: Bobby Jones
- Category: Dan Jenkins
- Category: Don January
- Category: Authors - K
- Category: Authors - L
- Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.
- Golf has more rules than any other game, because golf has more cheaters than any other game.
- If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball
- Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.
- My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.
- Talking to a golf ball won’t do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off
- The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is – don’t.
- We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.
- Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.
- Category: Bernhard Langer
- Category: Bruce Lansky
- Category: David Leadbetter
- Category: Jack Lemmon
- Category: Tony Lema
- Category: Authors - M
- Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And it took a seven to do that.
- He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
- If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you’ll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.
- If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt
- I’m gambling that when we get into the next life, Saint Peter will look at us and ask, “Golfer?” And when we nod, he will step aside and say, “Go right in; you’ve suffered enough.”
- I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course
- Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
- The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against an oak tree, bounces back into a sandtrap, hits a stone, bounces on the green and then rolls into the cup. That shot is so difficult I have made it only once.
- There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove
- There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice
- Category: A A Milne
- Category: Dean Martin
- Category: Groucho Marx
- Category: Jim Murray
- Category: Johnny Miller
- Category: Mickey Mantle
- Category: Tom Mulligan
- Category: Zeppo Marx
- Category: Authors - N
- Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you’ll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.
- Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work
- Don’t be too proud to take lessons. I’m not.
- Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it
- Golf is not and never has been a fair game
- Happiness is a long walk with a putter
- If you can’t hit driver, don’t.
- It takes hundreds of shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
- Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything
- Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation
- Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You’ve got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.
- Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game’s two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
- The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face
- The worse you’re performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is playing badly well. All the true greats have been masters at it.
- When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you’re putting well. When you’re putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it’s going to fall in, not if it’s going in
- When you’re playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That’s when you confuse yourself
- Category: Byron Nelson
- Category: Greg Norman
- Category: Jack Nicklaus
- Category: Authors - P
- A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks.
- A man who can putt is a match for anyone
- Golf tips are like Aspirin: One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you’ll be lucky to survive.
- If there’s a golf course in heaven, I hope it’s like Augusta. I just don’t want an early tee time.
- In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.
- Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective.
- The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.
- You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
- Category: Arnold Palmer
- Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you
- Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger
- Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
- How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It’s simple – I missed a four foot putt for an eleven
- I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.
- If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it
- No good player ever swings as hard as he can. Power is a matter of timing , not overpowering the ball
- On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it’s still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time.
- Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience
- Success depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character
- The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely, against themselves.
- The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done
- Timing is everything in life and in golf.
- When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time – that’s being alive.
- Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip
- Category: Gary Player
- Category: Harvey Penick
- Category: Huxtable Pippey
- Category: Willie Park Jnr
- Category: Authors - R
- A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o’clock and make it go toward 12 o’clock. But make sure you’re in the same time zone.
- A golfer has to train his swing on the practice tee, then trust it on the course
- Golf is a thinking man’s game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don’t know what to do with them, you’ve got troubles.
- Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots
- Hit the shot you know you can hit, not the one you think you should
- I don’t exaggerate – I just remember big
- I don’t fear death, but I sure don’t like those three-footers for par
- If you focus only on the target, you’ll play darn good golf.
- I’ve heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.
- Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It’s just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.
- The first time I played in the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.
- Category: Bob Rotella
- Category: Chi Chi Rodriguez
- Category: Authors - S
- A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing
- But in the end it’s still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can’t shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you’ve missed the point
- Don’t just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course
- Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird
- In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it
- Of all the hazards, fear is the worst
- The number one thing about trouble is…don’t get into more
- Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn’t float too well
- You’ve just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you’ve hit it.
- Category: Craig Stadler
- Category: Dave Stockton
- Category: Payne Stewart
- Category: Sam Snead
- Category: Authors - T
- Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, “Man, we shot 66!” But go out and shoot 77, and they say “Hell, he shot 77!”
- Golf is a good walk spoiled
- 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.
- I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.
- It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling
- Sam Torrance offered me a lift to the course in his car. Then he told me I was playing him and he intended driving to London so that if neither of us turned up he would get a half-point.
- The older I get, the better I used to be
- There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls
- You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
- You can talk to a fade but a hook won’t listen..
- You don’t know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket
- Category: Lee Trevino
- Category: Mark Twain
- Category: Authors - V
- Category: Authors - W
- According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.
- 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
- Days when you just don’t have it, you don’t pack it in, you give it everything you’ve got. You grind it out.
- Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can’t explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It’s a cruel sport in that way.
- Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.
- Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well
- Golf like measles should be caught young
- He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes at its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
- I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for, getting paid for doing what you love.
- I learned how to win by losing and not liking it
- I smile at obstacles
- If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate
- In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is yourself.
- It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.
- Never give up. If we give up in this game, we’ll give up on life. If you give up that first time, it’s easier to up the second, third and fourth time
- No matter how good you get, you can always get better — and that’s the exciting part.
- Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
- The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
- There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem – slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
- There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it
- There’s no sense in going to a tournament if you don’t believe that you can win it
- They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke
- To find a man’s true character, play golf with him
- To lose one’s temper at golf is foolish. It gets you nothing, not even relief.
- Winning takes care of everything
- You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one.
- Category: Caroline Wozniacki
- Category: Herbert Warren Wind
- Category: P G Wodehouse
- Category: Tiger Woods
- Category: Tom Watson
- Category: Authors - Z
- I’ve never been to heaven, and thinking back on my life, I probably won’t get a chance to go. I guess winning the Masters is as close as I’m going to get.
- The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
- Category: Fuzzy Zoeller
- Category: Zig Ziglar
- Category: Authors - A
- Category: Featured
- Category: Topics
- Category: Amateurs and Duffers
- Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks – No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard’s excellent Tennis for Beginners.
- Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make two triple bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe
- I’ll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.
- Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you’ve already made the mistake.
- The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise
- The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.
- Category: Caddies
- Category: Celebrities
- Category: Character and the Mind
- As all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in this and a certain unfairness even, which makes golf an even apter mirror of reality
- With it being harder a lot of guys sort of losing their head, it sort of brings them to my level because I just lose my head every week. They can experience what it’s like in my head for a week.
- Category: Cheating
- Category: Course Design and Places
- Category: Equipment
- Category: Famous Golf Courses
- Category: Famous Last Words
- Category: Friendly Matches
- Category: Golf - General Thoughts
- Category: Golf and Other Sports
- Category: Hazards
- Category: Inspirational
- Category: Majors
- Category: Match Play
- Category: Men's Tour
- Category: Money
- Category: Nineteenth Hole
- Category: Philosophy and Advice
- Category: Practice and Lessons
- Category: Pressure
- Category: Putting
- Category: Real Golfers
- Category: Rules and Officials
- Category: Ryder Cup
- Category: Scoring
- Category: Seniors
- Category: The Swing
- Category: Tour Players - Men
- Category: Winning and Losing
- Category: Woods and Irons
- Category: Amateurs and Duffers