Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 13)

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

American professional golfer

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes at its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

There are two things you can do with your head down– play golf and pray.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

(1926 – ) professional bowler

We have fifty-one golf courses in Palm Springs; he (Gerald Ford) never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

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

Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

The proper score for a businessman golfer is 90. If he is better than that he is neglecting his business. If he's worse, he's neglecting his golf.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

(1935 – ) South African professional golfer

I’m hitting the woods just great, but I’m having a terrible time getting out of them.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

The niblick, with its heavy head of iron, is a capital club for knocking down solicitors.

There is an old saying: If a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

(1907 – 1987) American journalist & author

John Daly's longer than Greg Norman… he’s even longer than War and Peace.

American sports columnist

Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver; the sand wedge is far more effective.

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

golf writer

Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf… I think it was my ex-wife.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Golf, especially championship golf, isn't supposed to be fun, was never meant to be fair, and never will make any sense.

author

You know you’re getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.

(1953 – ) American comedian, actor, voice artist, & columnist