Quotes About Golf

You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team.

As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and people say we are similar in a lot of ways.

In golf, no one learns to hit a draw, a fade, or a cut shot until they've been taught how to hit the ball straight. Similarly, novice poker players need to learn how to 'hit it straight' before taking on more difficult concepts.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Bagger Vance: Don't make no sense is all... Man say he don't play no golf when he out here this shade of night hittin balls off in the dark where he can't even see 'em... Rannulph Junuh: Yep... Well, I've done things that have made less sense... Bagger Vance: As we all have...

Am I hearing you right, sir?" Keeler asked. "Are you equating the swing with the soul, the Authentic Soul?" "I prefer the word Self," Bagger Vance said. "The Authentic Self. I believe this is the reason for the endless fascination of golf. The game is a metaphor for the soul's search for its true ground and identity.

first hole at Prestwick in Scotland; the wind was howling out of the left. I started an eight-iron thirty yards to windward, but the gale caught it; I watched in dismay as the ball sailed hard right, hit the green going sideways, and bounded off into the cabbage. Sonofabitch! I turned to our caddie. Did you see the wind take that shot!? He gave that look that only Scottish caddies can give. Well, ye've got t' play th' wind now

signed by Bobby Jones.

I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.

I found an instructor, Chris O'Connell, who helped me. He turned me into the player I am today - a consistent golfer.

Golf instills incredible values, including collaboration, competitiveness, and integrity.

I may not go down in history as the best female golfer to ever play, however my intent is to do whatever I can to grow the game.

The interesting thing is that everyone in golf is just nice. You learn a lot about people playing golf: their integrity, how they play under pressure.

Ryder Cup is an interesting thing.

I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

I can't *believe* you're a professional golfer! I think you should be working at the snack bar.

You know what's driving *me* crazy? You, not getting the ball in the hole.

What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.

Golf was just what the Scottish character had been searching for for centuries. Namely, a method of self-torture disguised as a game, which could entrap irreligious youths into principles of what was to become first known as Calvinism and then … golf. The main tenets of this faith are that life is grim and uncomfortable and that human vanity cannot prevail.

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

We have fifty-one golf courses in Palm Springs. He(Gerald Ford) never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot...At least he can't cheat on his score- because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded

Golf's a hard game to figure. One day you'll go out and slice it, shank it, hit all the traps, and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink