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Fairway: The well-kept and seldom used portion of a golf course.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

disc jockey, screenwriter & humorist

I think they just got through marinating the greens.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Gimme:  An agreement between two losers who can't putt.

(1907 – 1987) American journalist & author

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

But if you figure in the wind chill factor, it’s only 102.

professional golfer

When the ducks are walking, you know it is too windy to be playing golf.

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

Tee your ball high… the air offers less resistance than dirt.

(1940 – ) professional golfer

Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula… and it took a 7 to do that.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

I wouldn't say God couldn't have got out of it, but he'd have had to throw it.

(1929 – 2016) American golfer

A golf ball is like a clock; always hit it at 6 o’clock and make it go toward 12 o’clock… but make sure you’re in the same time zone.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist

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

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice.

Anglo-Irish golfer

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

professional golfer

Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.

(1912 – 2003) American sports writer

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

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

I wouldn't trust him to sit on a toilet the right way.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

One hundred years of experience has demonstrated that the game is temporary insanity practiced in a pasture.

American sports journalist