Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 14)

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

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist

The older I get, the better I used to be.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.

professional golfer

Shot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus to 66

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

I lost 150 lbs. if you include my wife.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

professional golfer

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

My handicap is that I don’t have a big enough beer cooler for the back of my golf cart.

professional football player

Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.

golf journalist

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name… and they say golf is a quiet game.

Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it; then you hit it again.

American professional golfer

There are two reasons for making a hole in one; the first is that it is immensely labor-saving.

I wish I could play my normal game… just once.

You drive for show, but putt for dough.

South African professional golfer

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

(1908 – 2004) British/American journalist, television personality & broadcaster

Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.

(1918 – 2009) radio broadcaster

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off; I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

What goes up must come down.  But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer