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It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.
Sep 24, 2025
It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.
Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?
All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.
What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.
Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.
Trevino is in a league by himself. We don't even count him. We figure when you come in second, you're a winner.
Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.
Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.
"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.
Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.
A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.
If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.
Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. Nor is this to be wondered at when you consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play. It has been observed that absolute idiots play the steadiest.
My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.
Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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.
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head.
Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.
I'm kind of like a guy who's missing a little bit of the guy gene. Like, I love steak, but the notion of golfing is the last thing I would want to do. I love women, but I'm also a mama's boy, and some of my best friends are women. So I'm kinda half guy's guy.
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.
In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.
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.
Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
The American public overwhelmingly regrets ObamaCare, our veterans are dying waiting to see doctors, the IRS intimidates conservative groups, the southern border is compared to a sieve and the president assures us not to worry - smiling, golfing and at this very moment partying... Because the fundraising never stops - not when four Americans die in Benghazi, and not when Baghdad is at the brink.
They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.
I know I will have to come to forgiveness and acceptance of what has happened for me to go on and be happy in the future. And I know I will get there eventually. I wish him all the best in the future, as a person and as an athlete ... I feel privileged to have witnessed a part of his golfing career.
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.
Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.