Golf Quotes - Page 32

• Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

  Hollis Stacy

  Bumps, Economy, Lost

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• I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.

  Ernie Holmes

  Play, People, Tree

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• Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.

  Paula Creamer

  Teacher, Fun, Disappointment

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• A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let my emotions take over on the golf course.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Thinking, People, Focus

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• I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

  Paula Creamer

  Avid, Games, Reader

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• I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.

  Paula Creamer

  Play, Said, Harder

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• Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

  George Archer

  Hunting, Fishing, Fellowship

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• Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, One Day, Height

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• How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

  Luke Scott

  Baseball, Men, Knives

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• The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

  Bobby Jones

  Enemy, Tension

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• The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

  Bobby Jones

  Beats, Objects

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• Golf is the one game I know
  which becomes more and more
  difficult the longer one plays it.

  Bobby Jones

  Games, Play, Difficult

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

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• The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way.

  Harry Vardon

  Successful, Play, Way

  Harry Vardon (1922). “Progressive Golf”

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• I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

  Ben Hogan

  Believe, Swings, Natural

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• I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the game and practicing it. Whether my schedule for the following day called for a tournament round or merely a trip to the practice tee, the prospect that there was going to be golf in it made me feel privileged and extremely happy, and I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Wonderful Friends, Practice

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

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• Good golf begins with a good grip.

  Ben Hogan

  Good Golf

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Player, Thinking, Care

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• I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Beach, Men, Thinking

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• I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Play, Musician, Too Much

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• I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters. So it was a great thrill to play there.

  Ray Floyd

  Winning, Games, Play

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• After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

  Bill Bryson

  Years, Games, Patient

  Bill Bryson (2000). “Down Under”, Doubleday Books

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• The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

  Lauren Hutton

  Doctors, Play, Tennis

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• I love baseball, but being here (in the United States), I've been able to play golf every day. I can't play in Japan because every course has caddies, and the caddies all want autographs and don't want to let me golf.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Baseball, Japan, Play

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• When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.

  Laird Hamilton

  Mistake, Ocean, Play

  "Laird Hamilton: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go.

  Jason Dufner

  Swings, Data, Games

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