GOLF QUOTES III

quotations about golf

Golf epitomizes the tame world. On a golf course nature is neutered. The grass is clean, a lawn laundry that wipes away the mud, the insect, the bramble, nettle and thistle, an Eezy-wipe lawn where nothing of life, dirty and glorious, remains. Golf turns outdoors into indoors, a prefab mat of stultified grass, processed, pesticided, herbicided, the pseudo-green of formica sterility.... The enemy of wildness, it is a demonstration of the absolute dominion of man over wild nature.

JAY GRIFFITHS

Wild: An Elemental Journey


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


If you drink, quit. If you smoke, cut down. That covers the physical end of it. Then you've got to get your brain in shape, which is even harder to do and more important. Following the same routine every week--play Wednesday through Sunday, do your laundry on Monday, travel on Tuesday--burns a lot of guys out. Forget about hitting balls, it's the lifestyle that will get you.

LEE TREVINO

attributed, New Quotable Golfer


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

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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

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I started golf in my forties, which is the ultimate optimism.

MICHAEL J. FOX

Esquire, Dec. 2007

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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


The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

PETE DYE

attributed, As Hogan Said...

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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?

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The true test is against "Old Man Par" and the golf course itself.

JACQUI NICOLETTI MCSORLEY & JOHNNY GONZALES

Golf Guide for Parents and Players


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


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

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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


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


Golf and sex are the only two things you don't have to be good at to enjoy.

KEVIN COSTNER

Tin Cup