Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 3)

The older you get the stronger the wind gets… and it's always in your face.

(1940 – ) professional golfer

You can’t lose an old golf ball.

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

golf writer

If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

Anglo-Irish golfer

Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself.

sports commentator

I lost 150 lbs. if you include my wife.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies; with experience, he covers up with better ones.

Then I was skinnier, I hit it better, I putted better, and I could see better… other than that, everything is the same.

professional golfer

If you watch a game, it’s fun; if you play it, it’s recreation; if you work at it, it’s golf.

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

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

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

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

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

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

American professional golfer

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out of doors.

I think they just got through marinating the greens.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

The number one thing about trouble is… don't get into more.

American professional golfer

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

(1907 – 1987) American journalist & author

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball; I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

(1934 – ) American baseball player