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Quotes About Golf

relatively wide stance—about the width of my shoulders between my heels—and gradually narrow it as the clubs shorten and the swing force decreases, to probably only 6 inches with the wedge. I effect this narrowing simply by moving the right foot closer to the left. In that way I maintain a constant relationship of the ball to my left heel. As I narrow my stance, I also "open" it by setting my left foot
~ Jack Nicklaus
relative to the distance I
~ Jack Nicklaus
Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.
~ Lydia Ko
Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.
~ Lydia Ko
A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.
~ Mac O'Grady
They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.
~ Don Adams
My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.
~ Bruce Lansky
Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
~ Bob Hope
When Trump in 2006 suddenly paid more than $10 million in cash to buy a huge patch of land in northeast Scotland, his mother's native country, with the goal of building a golf resort, it wasn't clear where he had come up with the money to do so.
~ Maggie Haberman
under oath he revealed the course was designed by taking holes from the courses he found on a PlayStation-era Tiger Woods video game. This resulted in Loudoun County being sued by Pebble Beach, Cog Hill and St. Andrews, not only for stealing from their courses, but for doing it so poorly that it damaged the original courses' reputations.
~ John Scalzi
I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.
~ Robert Kennedy
He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it.
~ Unknown
The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
~ Sam Snead
The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.
~ Sam Snead
On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic.
~ Unknown
When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.
~ Fuzzy Zoeller
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
~ Pete Dye
Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.
~ Karrie Webb
My handicap? Woods and irons.
~ Chris Codiroli
The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.
~ Unknown
Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.
~ Chuck Hogan
Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.
~ Harvey Penick
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, youre the best.
~ Jack Nicklaus