Quotes About Golf

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

You know why God invented Golf?' Service asked the ME, who shrugged. 'To keep assholes off trout streams.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

The unsurprising idea that luck often contributes to success has surprising consequences when we apply it to the first two days of a high-level golf tournament. To keep things simple, assume that on both days the average score of the competitors was at par 72. We focus on a player who did very well on the first day, closing with a score of 66. What can we

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball

Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

His one passion was for the game of golf, which Roosevelt found excruciatingly dull and slow.

his objection to golf as a game "shapeless and haphazard," whose only redeeming feature was the tee boxes!

Mickelson ExxonMobil

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

I always say golf's a really good exposer of a player's personality.

Playing with Phil Mickelson, it doesn't get any better than that.

I love Phil Mickelson. He's a dear friend.

One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.

Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.

Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it.

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.

When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the '74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.

No golfer's journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.

When I was at my peak, I would go into streaks where I felt like it was almost magic, that I could knock down the pin from anywhere with my irons.

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.