Golf Quotes
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On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
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A good golf course is like good music or good anything else; it is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one plays over it, but one which grows on the player the more frequently he visits it.
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Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.
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Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.
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I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.
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Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
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Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when your score is really on the line - is another story.
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Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.
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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
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Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf. Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene? Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.
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I do plan to return to golf one day. I just don't know when that day will be.
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
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Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.
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Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
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Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.
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You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.
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Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.
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McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.
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Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game.
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I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard.
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I had a temper when I played junior golf and had my clubs taken away for slamming them on the ground. I learned very quickly that I didn't want my clubs taken away from me.
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The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way.
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The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it
