Great Golfing Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

  Gardner Dickinson

  Believe, Golf, Complicated

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• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Years, Games

  "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.

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• Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Sports, Athlete

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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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• Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

  Chuck Hogan

  Funny, Golf, Play

  Chuck Hogan (1993). “Learning Golf: The How-To-Learn Book for Aspiring Golfers”, Sports Enhancement Assocs

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• My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

  Keith Michael

  Golf, Mind, Body

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• 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

  Golf, Men, Games

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• If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.

  Bob Hope

  Dirty, Golf, Play

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• Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Character, Golf

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• Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Management, Talent

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• Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

  Bob Hope

  Fun, Lying, Golf

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• If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

  Tom Mulligan

  Golf, Get Better, Age

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• Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

  Bobby Nichols

  Golf, Handicaps, Great Golf

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• I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Three, Fear Of Death

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• It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

  J. C. Snead

  Golf, Balls, Legs

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• Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Dimes, Whiskey

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• When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Two, Water

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• They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

  Tommy Bolt

  Distance, Golf, Clubs

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• 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

  Golf, Balls, Today

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• Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Sports, Golf, Thinking

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• The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Long, Tree

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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, Golf, Winning

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• Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

  Tommy Bolt

  Funny, Dirty, Golf

  "Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures". Book by Bob Glanville, 2010.

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• I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Play, Two

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