Golf Quotes - Page 57

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.

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

Players need to remember they didn't make golf. Golf made them.

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.

Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.

There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

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

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and alarmingly generous wads of folding money.

They say that golf isn't a contact sport. Not the way that we play it

Hey, is this room out of bounds?

My best score ever was 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.

Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so if you do happen to spin it, it won't slice or hook 'cause there's no atmosphere to make it turn.

Miles and miles and miles.

I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid.

If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.