Great Golfing Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Happiness is a long walk with a putter.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Long Walks, Long

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• In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

  Ken Harrelson

  Leadership, Baseball, Running

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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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• Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

  Robin Williams

  Golf, Men, White Man

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• Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

  Homero Blancas

  Golf, Yeah, Golfers

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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 call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

  Ray Floyd

  Funny, Taken, Golf

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  I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Funny, Sports, Golf

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• The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

  Billy Graham

  Sports, Prayer, Golf

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.143, B&H Publishing Group

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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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  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 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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• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Golf

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

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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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• 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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• Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

  William Wordsworth

  Sports, Retirement, Golf

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 4, l. 376

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• Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Golf, Games

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The more I practice, the luckier I get.

  Jerry Barber

  Sports, Volleyball, Golf

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

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Funny Golf, Inspirational Golf

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• It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Gains, Shots

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

  Harry Vardon

  Funny, Retirement, Golf

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