quotations about golf
Golf ... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P.G. WODEHOUSE
The Clicking of Cuthbert
Golf requires goofy pants and a fat ass. You should talk to my neighbor the accountant, probably a great golfer, huge ass.
ADAM SANDLER
Happy Gilmore
Golf is the Great Mystery.
P.G. WODEHOUSE
The Heart of Gold
I started golf in my forties, which is the ultimate optimism.
MICHAEL J. FOX
Esquire, Dec. 2007
Rail splitting produced an immortal President in Abraham Lincoln; but golf, with 20 thousand courses, hasn't produced even a good, A number-1 Congressman.
WILL ROGERS
attributed, Will Rogers' World
Although practice swings
Can be helpful things,
Twere better, indeed, not take any
Than to fiddle and fret
And before playing get
Exhausted from taking too many.
RICHARD ARMOUR
"Preliminaries"
The true test is against "Old Man Par" and the golf course itself.
JACQUI NICOLETTI MCSORLEY & JOHNNY GONZALES
Golf Guide for Parents and Players
Golf is becoming a game of non-choice. It is no longer the person who knows the value of each of his clubs, and who can work out when it is proper to lay one and when to play another that succeeds at the game. Rather, it is the power hitter getting so far down the fairway that he has a privileged ease for the remainder of the hole.
GEOFFREY S. CORNISH
Golf Architecture
I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Leacock on Life
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
PETE DYE
attributed, As Hogan Said...
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
JACK NICKLAUS
on winning his 70th PGA tournament, WINS Radio, May 28, 1984
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
HANK AARON
attributed, Why Do They Call It a Birdie?
In stroke play I don't particularly care what the guys I am playing with shoot or do, because you're just trying to play the course. In match play I think you find yourself rooting against your opponent a lot more, because the difference between winning a hole could be the difference between winning or losing the match.
MARCH CALCAVECCHIA
Golf Digest, 1991
Golf and sex are the only two things you don't have to be good at to enjoy.
KEVIN COSTNER
Tin Cup
Regardless of how well or not so well we play the game, a round of golf is plot in a nutshell with surlyn cover. It begins, as stories do, with infinite possibilities and hopes for a happy ending. Then, along the way, all hell's likely to break loose.
JEFF SILVERMAN
introduction, Classic Golf Stories