Great Golf Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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  I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Determination

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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Complicated

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• Golf is a better game played downhill.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Games, Funny Golf

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• A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Growing Up, Kids, Golf

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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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• The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

  Pablo Picasso

  Golf, Wind, Getting Older

  "International Herald Tribune" Newspaper (Paris), February 28, 1990.

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• Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

  A. A. Milne

  Golf, Games, World

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.22, The Floating Press

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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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• Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

  Arnold Palmer

  Wisdom, Golf, Natural Gifts

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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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• 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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• 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 only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Golf, Needs

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• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Hair, Swings

  Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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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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• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, Knives

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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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• As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

  Ben Hogan

  Inspirational, Sports, Friday

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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, Golf, Upset

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

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• Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game.

  Gay Brewer

  Golf, Games, Masters

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• A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Skills, Two

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• Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

  Alice Cooper

  Mistake, Golf, Player

  Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2003.

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