Quotes About Golf

There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.

The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.

If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

Golf is a very serious part of my life, but when you stop having fun at it, that's when it's time to hang it up.

I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

if you want a terrific not-crowded beach, drive out to Miacomet Golf Course, but just before you reach the clubhouse, take a right onto the dirt road that leads past the big antenna.

I remember the reason why did I start my golf. We had a four day game I was playing for Trinidad against the Leeward Islands. They had in their ranks Winston Benjamin, Curtly Ambrose and Kenneth Benjamin. To add to it, the track was a green top. The four day game lasted two days, so I had two days to play golf.

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

You can be a guy who won 18 majors, but that doesn't mean you'll be a great Ryder Cupper. That's the rarest golf there is.

You have to know how to read your lie and take a calculated risk when you hit out of the rough.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

It is much easier to do a film about something that the audience readily knows about - say, cricket. It is much more difficult to write a film based on golf.

I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

My dad and grandpa were big golfers, and I think any boy wants to be like their dad. So growing up around him being at the golf course, it was an easy choice for me.

NBC Sports does a great job with golf.