Golf Course Quotes - Page 4

• I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Careers, Iron

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• I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

  Ree Drummond

  Mother, Children, Golf

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• If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.

  Bob Hope

  Dirty, Golf, Play

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• Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Golf

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• Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

  Nancy Mitford

  Nature, Golf, Garden

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• When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I'm just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor. A movie like Caddyshack, I can walk on a golf course and some guy will be screaming entire scenes at me and expecting me to do it word for word with him. It's like, 'Fella, I did that once. I improvised that scene. I don't remember how it goes'. But I'm charmed by it. I'm not like, 'Hey, knock it off'. It's kind of cool.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Golf, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

  Bobby Jones

  Struggle, Golf, Years

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

  Ben Hogan

  Home, Golf, Games

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Management, Talent

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• This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Winning, Games

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• I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Play, Age

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• Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

  Lee Trevino

  Dirty, Golf, Gold

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• Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Games, Fair Game

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Years, I Have Learned

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• Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Golf, May

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• I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.

  Bernhard Langer

  Golf, Upset, Important

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• On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.

  Bobby Jones

  Hero, Fate, Golf

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• It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

  Bobby Jones

  Passion, Golf, Games

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• A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Player, Thinking

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• Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Effort, Yards

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• Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Two, Timing

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• In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Winning, Order

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• I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

  Bobby Jones

  Home, Golf, Balls

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Self, Rooms

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• Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Men, Play

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