Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 13)

That ball is so far left Lassie couldn’t find it if it was wrapped in bacon.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

A professional will tell you the amount of flex you need in the shaft of your club. The more the flex, the more strength you will need to break the thing over your knees.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth; it is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

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

Spanish professional golfer

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

I try to play golf at least once a day.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

What’s nice about the Senior Tour, is you can’t remember your bad shots.

professional golfer

The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie – and an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark…

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

Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself.

sports commentator

My clubs are well used, but unfortunately not used well.

Once bitten, it is akin to having your neck punctured in Transylvania… there is no known antidote.

golf course architect

Handicap: An allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

The reason they call if ‘golf’ is that all the other four-letter words were used up.

You don’t know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two in your pocket.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

(1910 – 1983) professional golfer

Stroke: Any forward movement of the golf club that is made with the intention of hitting and moving the ball and is observed by another golfer.

Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

The rest of the field.

American professional golfer

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off. 


(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist