Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 15)

Some people say I play erratic golf. What they mean is I frequently play lousy.

American professional golfer

You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other golfers will refuse to stop and be witnesses, because they will want to keep playing.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Golf is just a game – and an idiotic game most of the time.

American professional golfer

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

(1940 – ) professional golfer

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit it that far.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)

I was three over, one over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.

(1953 – ) American baseball player

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

80 percent of the balls that don’t reach the hole, don’t go in.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

At 15 we put down my bag to hunt for a ball, found the ball, lost the bag.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.

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

If he couldn't chip, he'd be selling cars in San Diego.

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.

There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem – slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

Golf isn’t a game, it’s a choice that one makes with one’s life.

screenwriter & producer

Businessman: One who talks golf all morning at the office, and business all afternoon on the links.

Golf is not just a good walk ruined, it’s also the act of hitting things violently with a stick ruined.

British stand-up comedian, writer & actor

I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

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

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

Azinger is wearing an all black outfit: black jumper, blue trousers, white shoes and a pink tea-cosy hat.

British sports announcer