Golf Course Quotes - Page 8

• What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

  Amy Alcott

  Golf, Holes, Continuity

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• I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever.

  Amy Alcott

  Philosophy, Distance, Golf

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• 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.

  Amy Alcott

  Golf, Average, Practice

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• From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  Manny Farber

  Sweet, Golf, Men

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• Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.

  Matthew William Goode

  Beautiful, Heart, Golf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.

  Terry O'Quinn

  Golf, Restaurants, Courses

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• In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

  Lee Westwood

  Golf, Years, Next

  "Leaner and meaner" by Bill Elliott, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

  Mike Weir

  Brother, Golf, Two

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• I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

  Mike Weir

  Kids, Golf, Winning

  Skysports.com Interview, www.skysports.com. July 3, 2011.

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• On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Golf, Average, Car

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• They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Eye, Golf, Amen

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• Mitt Romney looks like a guy modeling briefs on a package of underwear ... He looks like a guy who goes to the restroom when the check comes ... He looks like a guy who would run a seminar on condo flipping ... He looks like he is the closer at a Cadillac dealership.... He looks like that guy on the golf course in the Levitra commercial.

  David Letterman

  Running, Golf, Guy

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• Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Thinking, World

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Character, Golf, Trying

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• The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.

  Garrison Keillor

  Wise, Jobs, Lying

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• From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Character, Golf

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• Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

  Louis Nizer

  Morning, Book, Golf

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• The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.

  Carson Palmer

  Golf, Relax, Balls

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. July 27, 2005.

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• The meeting with Prince William took place at the White House because Prince William wanted to see where the president spent his days, but the golf course was covered in snow.

  Craig Ferguson

  Golf, White, Snow

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• Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Funny, Golf, Church

  "The Political Thought of Adlai E. Stevenson" by William Robert Latimer, (p. 89), 1955.

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• A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Guy, Position

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• 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

  Sports, Golf, Games

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• If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there just to brighten it up. I feel the same way about old golf courses. When you have a masterpiece, I sure wouldn't tinker with it.

  Ray Floyd

  Golf, Thinking, Color

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• It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

  Phil Mickelson

  Golf, Play, Design

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• Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Bags, Firsts

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