Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 10)

Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much.

American professional golfer

Show me a man who is a good loser and I’ll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

I like to play in the low 70′s… if it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

You never had to ask his score; just count the casualties.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

It’s hard to play a guy who rattles his medals while you’re putting.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

I know I’m getting better at golf because I’m hitting fewer spectators.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

(1897 – 1976) American novelist, short story & sports writer

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.

professional golfer

Yes, golf can be taught – it’s just that it can’t be learned.

(1926 – 2010) Canadian actor

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.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

The only way to ruin a day like this would be to play golf on it.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

If you break 100, watch your golf; if you break 80, watch your business.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow; then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

Spanish professional golfer

I wouldn't trust him to sit on a toilet the right way.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

I’m having problems with my putting; but it’s the puttee, not the putter.

professional golfer

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist