Golf Quotes

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.

Golf is something I do selfishly for myself.

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.

Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.