Golf Quotes - Page 24

• I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.

  Don Adams

  Balls, Today, Wonderful

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• 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

  Lying, Men, Play

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.130, The Floating Press

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• To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Character, Men, Play

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.130, The Floating Press

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• Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.

  Cary Middlecoff

  Hitting, Green, Cups

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• Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

  Gene Littler

  Mistake, Winning, Games

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• Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

  Mark Calcavecchia

  Games, Idiotic, Great Golf

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• Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Remember, Finished, Funny Golf

  "Every picture tells a story", www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

  Sam Snead

  Balls, Problem, Just One

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• One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

  Mac O'Grady

  Bleeding, Next, Painting

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

  Ian Baker-Finch

  Holiday, Driving, Unbelievable

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• I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

  Ben Hogan

  Persistence, Games, Play

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• You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.

  Lee Trevino

  Play, Two, Pockets

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• Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.

  Alex Hay

  Funny, Inspiring, Men

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• I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

  Arnold Palmer

  Opponents, Palms, Rooted

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• Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

  Dave Marr

  Three, Shots, Best Shot

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• Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife.

  Bruce Lansky

  Thinking, Wife, More To Life

  Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

  Michael Bamberger

  Guitar, Tennis, Balls

  Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.

  Ben Hogan

  Shade, Remember, Poor

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Games, Play

  "Bobby Jones said play the ball as it lies. Tiger Woods has done just that", www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.

  Lee Trevino

  Mean, Weak, Show Me

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• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sports, Gambling, Pool Table

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• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Butterfly, Upset, Links

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Clicking of Cuthbert”, p.128, The Floating Press

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• "After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• Golf always makes me so damned angry.

  George V

  Angry

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

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• Never concede the putt that beats you.

  Harry Vardon

  Beats, Great Golf, Golf Putting

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