Golf Quotes - Page 30

If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.

Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game.

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

I dont play golf or tennis, I dont ski, I dont snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything would be perfect.

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.

The harder you work, the luckier you become.

I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.

No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.

The truth is, the first golf club I owned was an old left-handed, wooden-shafted, rib-faced mashie that a fellow gave me, and that's the club I was weaned on. During the mornings we caddies would bang the ball up and down the practice field until the members arrived and it was time to go to work. So I did all that formative practice left-handed. But I'm a natural right-hander.

My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

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.

I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

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