Golf Quotes - Page 16

Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.

I always putted without a glove but I have no idea why - I saw others doing it and copied them.

If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?

We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand.

I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

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

My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.

Never try a shot you haven't practised.

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

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

The course is so long, I had to take the curvature of the Earth into consideration.

Swing hard in case you hit it.

I'll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the game and practicing it. Whether my schedule for the following day called for a tournament round or merely a trip to the practice tee, the prospect that there was going to be golf in it made me feel privileged and extremely happy, and I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably long time if we took more than two hours to play a round. Today it not infrequently takes over three hours.

On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.