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When you lip out several putts in a row, you should never think that means that you're putting well. When you're putting well, the only question is what part of the hole it's going to fall in, not if it's going in.
Sep 24, 2025
Never concede the putt that beats you.
Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.
Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.
Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
The more you play it the less you know about it.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose
I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.
The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.
I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied.
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.
After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.
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.
The older I get, the better I was.
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.