Great Golf Quotes - Page 2

• Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

  Earl Wilson

  Disappointment, Golf, Broken

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• Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

  Tiger Woods

  Basketball, Sports, Sexy

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• The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Two, Secret

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• The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

  H. G. Wells

  Beauty, Golf, Men

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.4845, Delphi Classics

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• Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

  Harry Vardon

  Funny, Retirement, Golf

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• The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

  John Updike

  Golf, Swings, Trying

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.124, Random House

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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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• Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Shots, Funny Golf

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• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, Hazards

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• My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Swings, Lunch

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• I never learned anything from a match that I won.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Funny Golf, Inspirational Golf

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• The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Bags, Woods

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• I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Missing, Helping

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• May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

  Ben Hogan

  Lying, Golf, Water

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• The most important shot in golf is the next one.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Important, The Next One

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• Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

  Paul Harvey

  Writing, Golf, Games

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• The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

  Pete Dye

  Funny, Golf, Play

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• Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Air, Years

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• If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Iron

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  What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational Sports, Art, Athlete

  Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports

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• Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

  Bobby Jones

  Sports, Golf, Space

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• I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Strokes

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• It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

  Bobby Jones

  Basketball, Sports, Golf

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• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  Hank Aaron

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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