Golf Quotes - Page 18

• Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.

  A. P. Herbert

  Men, Games, Behaviour

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• Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Sex, Enjoy, Be Good

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• Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sex, Fun, Writing

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• The point is that it doesn't matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.

  Seve Ballesteros

  Impact, Long, Looks

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• He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Perfect, Understanding

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• They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Real, Excellence, Spirit

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

  Colman McCarthy

  May, Pressure, Hours

  Colman McCarthy (1977). “The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf”

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• I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

  Seve Ballesteros

  Play, Rough, Golfing

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• Everybody has two swings-a beautiful practice swing and the choked-up one with with which they hit the ball. So it wouldn't do either of us a damned bit of good to look at your practice swing.

  Ed Furgol

  Beautiful, Swings, Practice

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• Happiness is a long walk with a putter.

  Greg Norman

  Long Walks, Long, Golfing

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• Hit it hard. It will land somewhere.

  Mark Calcavecchia

  Land, Hard

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• No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

  Sam Snead

  Giving Up, Drinking, Games

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• I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.

  Lee Trevino

  Winning, Years, Caddies

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• No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.

  Lee Trevino

  Swings, Lessons, Mines

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• I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

  Lee Trevino

  Distance, Long, Hitting

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• That divot is so deep, I will need a sod cutter to fix it.

  Brian Weiss

  Needs, Cutters, Sod

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• Never take a mulligan on a par 3. A "hole in three" is not a fun story to relive.

  Brian Weiss

  Fun, Stories, Three

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• Golf is like smoking, I have been trying to quit for years.

  Brian Weiss

  Years, Smoking, Trying

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• I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

  Babe Ruth

  Needs, Green, Courses

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• Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so if you do happen to spin it, it won't slice or hook 'cause there's no atmosphere to make it turn.

  Alan Shepard

  Atmosphere, Balls, Hook

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• G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

  Richard Armour

  Green, Holes

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• A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

  Billy Joel

  Musician, Typical, Heavy Metal

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• Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

  Dave Barry

  Talking, Interesting, Trying

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• The worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.'

  Patty Sheehan

  Advice, Worst

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• The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.

  Sammy Cahn

  Lying, Lockers, Rooms

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