Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 16)

I don’t enjoy playing video golf because there’s nothing to throw.

American professional golfer

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

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

professional golfer

You know what they say about big hitters… the woods are full of them.

(1910 – 1983) professional golfer

They are like hot air dryers in public lavatories. They are a good idea, but take too long.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

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.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

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

Those trees seem to grow every year…

British professional golfer & commentator

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

American professional golfer

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

novelist, screenwriter & businessman

One of the finest sights in the world: the other man's ball dropping in the water – preferably so that he can see it but cannot quite reach it and has therefore to leave it there, thus rendering himself so mad that he loses the next hole as well.

British golf writer & commentator

I lost 150 lbs. if you include my wife.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

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 don't think he'd even be happy with ice cream right now.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

Golf… is the infallible test; the man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

For those who know golf, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation is possible.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

This is a game of misses; the guy who misses the best is going to win.

American professional golfer

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt… the rest can never be mastered.

(1946 – ) British politician

That son of a bitch was able to hole a putt over sixty feet of peanut brittle.

American professional golfer

I don’t fear death, but I sure don’t like those three-footers for par.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer