Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 19)

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by an occasional miracle.

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

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

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

Dead Golfer Plays His Best Round

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

professional golfer

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

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

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

professional golfer

(We) should be allowed to wear shorts; God almighty, (LPGA) women are allowed to wear ‘em, and we’ve got better legs than they do.

professional golfer

I'll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist

Golf is a better game played downhill.

(1940 – ) professional golfer

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

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

The only way to ruin a day like this would be to play golf on it.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.