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Quotes About Golf

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
~ Maurice Greene
Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.
~ Unknown
For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
~ Michael Jordan
Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing Curing
~ Unknown
Eyes directly above the target line, slightly behind the ball, to ensure you swing along the target line.
~ Unknown
simple, rule-of-thumb formula for determining length of the backstroke is one inch of backswing for each one foot of putt distance. For
~ Unknown
A good, general ratio is one-third backswing, two-thirds follow-through, that is, a follow-through twice as long as your backswing. That
~ Unknown
strongly recommend a slight inward knee flex, as if one were holding a volleyball between the knees, or there
~ Unknown
Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.
~ Michael Phelps
Indeed, in his first weeks in the White House, an inattentive Trump was already trying to curtail his schedule of meetings, limit his hours in the office, and keep his normal golf habits.
~ Michael Wolff
I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday.
~ Mike Morley
Imagine how many sweaters I could knit for the price of your golf membership.
~ Nancy Warren
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
~ Natalie Gulbis
Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.
~ Natalie Gulbis
Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
~ Natalie Gulbis
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. —Will Rogers
~ Neal Boortz
John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.
~ Nick Faldo
The only person to ever play golf on the moon was astronaut Alan Shepard. His golf ball was never found.
~ Unknown
It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.
~ Nubar Gulbenkian
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
~ Paul Harvey
How come the white male politicians who vote against affirmative action are always so willing to accept a handicap on the golf course?
~ Paul Krassner