Golf Game Quotes:

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

- Tommy Bolt

source: Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

topic: Golf, Games, Ulcers, Golf Game

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

topic: Funny, Golf, Games, Humorous Golf, Golf Ball

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

- Bobby Jones

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Golf, Games, Inches, Sports Mental Toughness, Motivational Golf

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

- Heywood Hale Broun

topic: Golf, Games, Measurement, Exactitude, Great Golf

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

- Phil Blackmar

topic: Sports, Bad Day, Golf, Golf Game, Golf Love

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

- Robert Browning

topic: Golf, Games, Clubs, Golf Clubs, Golf Game

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

topic: Golf, Thinking, Games, Golfing, Golf Game

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

- Paul Harvey

topic: Writing, Golf, Games, Inspirational Golf, Motivational Golf

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Golf, Air, Games, Humorous Golf, Great Golf

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Golf, Winning, Games, Great Golf, Funny Golfing

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Sports, Husband, Games, Humorous Golf, Funny Sports

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

- Will Rogers

source: Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).

topic: Funny, Sports, Hate, Inspirational Golf, Motivational Golf

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

- Gerald R. Ford

topic: Funny, Sports, Golf, Humorous Golf, Inspirational Golf

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

topic: Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports, Humorous Golf, Golf Ball

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

- A. A. Milne

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

topic: Golf, Games, World, Inspirational Golf, Funny Golf

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

- Hank Aaron

topic: Funny, Sports, Baseball, Humorous Golf, Motivational Golf

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Attitude, Golf, Games, Inspirational Golf, Motivational Golf

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Simple, Complicated, Inspirational Golf, Life Is A Game

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

- Gerald R. Ford

topic: Golf, Eagles, Games, Golf Ball, Elk

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

- Bobby Jones

source: "Bobby Jones said play the ball as it lies. Tiger Woods has done just that", www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

topic: Lying, Golf, Games, Golf Ball, Inspirational Golf

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Golf, Games, Play, Golf Game, Golf Humor

"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.

- P. G. Wodehouse

topic: Character, Mean, Golf, Kink, Golfing

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Golf, Games, Able, Golf Ball, Duplicate

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

- Rick Reilly

topic: School, Golf, Lunch, Slap, Funny Golf

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

- Jack Nicklaus

source: Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

topic: Golf, Games, Fair Game, Golf Game

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Golf, Men, Games, Playing Golf, Good Golf

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

- Lee Trevino

source: Quoted in Scholastic Coach,'Coaches' Corner', Dec 1982.

topic: Golf, Games, Tomatoes, Humorous Golf, Golfing

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

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Games, Strokes, Great Golf, Golfing

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Passion, Golf, Games, Sears, Golf Game

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Struggle, Golf, Years, Life Is A Game, Golf Game

For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

- Harry Vardon

topic: Golf, Games, Mind, Golf Game

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

- Robin Williams

topic: Golf, Men, Games, Funny Golfing, Golf Game

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Home, Golf, Games, Golf Game

Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. 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 behavior not otherwise excusable.

- A. P. Herbert

topic: Lonely, Children, Golf, Malediction, Muttering

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

- Amy Alcott

topic: Life, Stress, Golf, Stress And Life, Life Stress

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

- Bruce McCall

topic: Dream, Golf, Self, Exorcism, Presbyterians

No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

- Bruce McCall

topic: Dog, Golf, Men, Playing Golf, Good Golf

Golf is a better game played downhill.

- Jack Nicklaus

topic: Golf, Games, Playing Golf, Golf Clubs, Golf Game

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Golf, Games, Glamour, Golf Game

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

- Ben Hogan

topic: Golf, Games, Something New, Golf Game

Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time.

- Mark Calcavecchia

topic: Golf, Games, Idiotic, Golf Game

No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

- Sam Snead

topic: Giving Up, Drinking, Golf, Golf Game

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

- Amy Alcott

topic: Spiritual, Golf, Games, Golf Game, Zen Like

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

- Charles Rosin

topic: Golf, Games, Choices, Golf Game

The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.

- Tommy Bolt

topic: Funny, Liars, Humorous, Golf Game

I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.

- Sam Snead

source: "The lessons I've learned: better golf the Sam Snead way".

topic: Golf, Games, Shops, Golf Game

It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.

- Al McGuire

topic: Moving, Kids, Golf, Free Throw, Funny Golf

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

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

topic: Golf, Years, Games, Inspirational Golf, Playing Golf

Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

- Burt Shotton

topic: Golf, Men, Games, Golfing, Golf Game

The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Games, Opponents, Golf Game