Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 8)

Handicap: An allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

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

Anglo-Irish golfer

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

(1929 – 2016) American golfer

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

(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.

I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

(1902 – 1971) American comedian & singer

Fairway: A narrow strip of closely mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

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

There are two things you can do with your head down– play golf and pray.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

Columbus went around the world in 1492; that isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

If you think golf is relaxing, you're not playing it right.

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

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

(1935 – ) South African professional golfer

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

(1897 – 1976) American novelist, short story & sports writer

Golf is not a game, it’s bondage; it was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins.

Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name… and they say golf is a quiet game.

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

As an intellectual, he bestowed upon the games of golf and bridge all the enthusiasm and perseverance that he withheld from his books and ideas.

(1920 – 1982) foreign bureau chief, editor & speechwriter

At 15 we put down my bag to hunt for a ball, found the ball, lost the bag.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

As if we don’t have enough violence on television.

(1925 – 2018) U.S. first lady, wife of George H. W. Bush

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

My best score ever was 103. But I've only been playing fifteen years.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor