golf quotes from the pros

Quotes from famous golfers

Harry Vardon1870-1937

Don’t play too much golf.Two rounds a day is

plenty.

Walter Hagan1892-1969

1st American to win the British Open-1922

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All

have erred in this respect.

It’s nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time, but it took me many years to

realize it.~ ~ ~ Bobby Jones

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course...

the space between your ears.

Some people think they’re

concentrating when they’re

merely worrying.

If ever I needed an 8 foot putt, and

everything I owned depended

on it, I would want

Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

The secret of golf is to turn

three shots into two.

Bobby Jones

Byron Nelson

I play with friends, but

we don't play friendly games

Ben Hogan

If a lot of people gripped a knife and

fork as poorly as they do a golf club, they'd

starve to death.

Sam Snead

I shot a wild elephant in Africa 30 yards from me, and it didn’t hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn’t a bit scared.

But a 4 foot putt scares me to death.

The only reason I played golf was so I could afford to go hunting or fishing.

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of

you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to

pick it up.

The mind messes up more shots than the body.

Tommy Bolt

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody

would put a flagstick on top.

Pete Dye

(He designs the only golf courses that could burn down!)

If everybody could learn to hold his [or her] head still here

wouldn’t be any golfers around still trying to break 100.

Arnold Palmer

What other people may find in poetry or art museums,

I find in the flight of a good drive.

I have a tip that can take five

strokes off anyone's

golf game: it's called an

eraser.

Julius BorosBy the time you get to your ball, if

you don't know what to do with it, try another sport

Gary Player:The harder I practice the luckier I get.

The always entertaining

Chi Chi Rodriguez

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those

three-footers for par.

I don't exaggerate –

I just remember big.

Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes

off.

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in

English

Lee Trevino

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That

isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

(On his new books) The first one is called

“How to Get the Most Distance Out of

Your Shanks,” and the other is, “How to

Take the Correct Stance on Your

Fourth Putt.

If you're caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron.

Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

The older I get…the better I used to be.

Jack Nicklaus

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and

it's always in your face.

Johnny Miller: Golf is 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

Raymond Floyd: They call it golf because all the other four letter

words were taken.

Jim Dent: I can airmail the golf ball, but

sometimes I don't put the right address on it.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully

planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Tom Watson

Golf will grow so long as it's fun.

Ben Crenshaw:(Getting his green Masters jacket in 1984

from Seve Ballesteros)

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance

my left ear is from my right.

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

graceful result.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Love and putting are mysteries for the philosopher to solve. Both subjects are

beyond golfers.Tommy Armour

Golfers talk about John Daly’s ability to drive the ball:

His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.

John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a

Wednesday afternoon compared to him.

Ian Baker Finch

Nick Faldo

Tiger

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

you love.

Hockey is a sport for white men.

Basketball is a sport for black men.

Golf is a sport for white men dressed

like black pimps.

David Feheqty, Golfeq

tuqned CommentatoqWhen CBS asked him to

do on-course

commentary he said,

You know, I'm only 37, I still have hopes of

[playing] a little better.So they told me what

they were going to pay

me, and I said,

“You want to buy a set of clubs? "

When asked why he was moving to the

U.S. to work as a golf analyst:

Because I've already insulted everyone in Europe.

Some pqiceless Feheqty

Quotes:That ball is so far left, Lassie couldn’t find it if it was wrapped in bacon.

I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn’t be here this week. He is

attending the birth of his next wife.

Jim Furyk’s

swing: It looks like an

octopus falling out of

a tree.

Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk

chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.Commenting on

John Daly's pants:

They're why the Hubble telescope is pointed away from

the earth.

With Gaqy

McCoqd

Some quotes from the fairer sex

It's not enough just to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle

and let 'er fly.

I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me,

it was permanent.

Babe Didrickson Zaharias

I expect to play golf until I am 90—even longer if anybody figures out

a way to swing a golf clubfrom a wheel chair

BabeDidricksonZaharias

The Babe is here. . .

Who’s coming in second?

Patty BergThere is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon

if you practice.

Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun. If you do, it breaks your heart.

Don’t break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

Louise Suggs

Mickey WrightOn the game of Golf:

A never-ending challenge, frustratingbut never dull, infuriating but satisfying.

When you start thinking about what else you can do,you realize there’s nothing better than what we do.

Meg Mallon on retirement:

The simpler I keep things,The better I play.

Nancy Lopez

My swing is no uglierthan Arnold Palmer’s,

and it’s the same ugly swing every time.

Payne Stewart

In the end it's still a game ofgolf, and if at the end of the dayyou can't shake hands with youropponents and still befriends, then you've missed thepoint.

Life is like a Round of Golf

Life is like a round of golfWith many a turn and twist.But the game is much too sweet and shortTo curse the shots you’ve missed.

Sometimes you’ll hit it straight and farSometimes the putts roll true.But each round has it’s errant shotsAnd troubles to play through.

So always swing with courageNo matter what the lie.And never let the hazardsDestroy the joy inside.

And keep a song within your heartGive thanks that you can play.For the round is much too short and sweetTo let it slip away.

— Criswell Freeman