Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 16)

The people who gave us golf and called it a game are the same people who gave us bag pipes and called it music.

Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

I try to play golf at least once a day.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.

(1928 – ) Armenian American politician

It looks like a one armed man trying to wrestle a snake in a phone booth.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

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

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

Never has my flabber been so completely gasted

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

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

(1953 – ) American baseball player

A business executive is someone who talks golf in the office and business on the golf course!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Man blames most accidents on fate – but feels a more personal responsibility when he makes a hole-in-one on the golf course.

Four-letter Word: Par for the coarse.

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more."

American sportswriter

If God wants to produce the ideal golfer then He should create a being with a set of unequal arms and likewise legs, an elbow-free left arm, knees which hinge sideways and a ribless torso from which emerges, at an angle of 45 degrees, a stretched neck fitted with one color-blind eye stuck firmly on the left side.

golf author

I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing; now I go to the driving range to practice slicing without swearing.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist

Isn't it great to live in a society where the penalty for lying to a congressman can be up to 30 years in jail, but the penalty for a congressman lying to you is another two years in office.

(1955 – ) American sportswriter

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

American professional golfer

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

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

Congress

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president

I just stood there watching him walk past and thinking, ‘I don’t know what that is, but I know there weren’t two of them on Noah’s Ark.’

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

A woman I know is engaged to a real golf nut.  They are supposed to get married next Saturday…but only if it rains.