golf quotes from the pros
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Quotes from famous golfers
Harry Vardon1870-1937
Don’t play too much golf.Two rounds a day is
plenty.
Walter Hagan1892-1969
1st American to win the British Open-1922
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All
have erred in this respect.
It’s nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time, but it took me many years to
realize it.~ ~ ~ Bobby Jones
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course...
the space between your ears.
Some people think they’re
concentrating when they’re
merely worrying.
If ever I needed an 8 foot putt, and
everything I owned depended
on it, I would want
Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
The secret of golf is to turn
three shots into two.
Bobby Jones
Byron Nelson
I play with friends, but
we don't play friendly games
Ben Hogan
If a lot of people gripped a knife and
fork as poorly as they do a golf club, they'd
starve to death.
Sam Snead
I shot a wild elephant in Africa 30 yards from me, and it didn’t hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn’t a bit scared.
But a 4 foot putt scares me to death.
The only reason I played golf was so I could afford to go hunting or fishing.
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of
you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to
pick it up.
The mind messes up more shots than the body.
Tommy Bolt
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody
would put a flagstick on top.
Pete Dye
(He designs the only golf courses that could burn down!)
If everybody could learn to hold his [or her] head still here
wouldn’t be any golfers around still trying to break 100.
Arnold Palmer
What other people may find in poetry or art museums,
I find in the flight of a good drive.
I have a tip that can take five
strokes off anyone's
golf game: it's called an
eraser.
Julius BorosBy the time you get to your ball, if
you don't know what to do with it, try another sport
Gary Player:The harder I practice the luckier I get.
The always entertaining
Chi Chi Rodriguez
I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those
three-footers for par.
I don't exaggerate –
I just remember big.
Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes
off.
I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in
English
Lee Trevino
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That
isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
(On his new books) The first one is called
“How to Get the Most Distance Out of
Your Shanks,” and the other is, “How to
Take the Correct Stance on Your
Fourth Putt.
If you're 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.
The older I get…the better I used to be.
Jack Nicklaus
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
The older you get the stronger the wind gets and
it's always in your face.
Johnny Miller: Golf is 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.
Raymond Floyd: They call it golf because all the other four letter
words were taken.
Jim Dent: I can airmail the golf ball, but
sometimes I don't put the right address on it.
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully
planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
Tom Watson
Golf will grow so long as it's fun.
Ben Crenshaw:(Getting his green Masters jacket in 1984
from Seve Ballesteros)
I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance
my left ear is from my right.
Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a
graceful result.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Love and putting are mysteries for the philosopher to solve. Both subjects are
beyond golfers.Tommy Armour
Golfers talk about John Daly’s ability to drive the ball:
His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.
John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a
Wednesday afternoon compared to him.
Ian Baker Finch
Nick Faldo
Tiger
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what
you love.
Hockey is a sport for white men.
Basketball is a sport for black men.
Golf is a sport for white men dressed
like black pimps.
David Feheqty, Golfeq
tuqned CommentatoqWhen CBS asked him to
do on-course
commentary he said,
You know, I'm only 37, I still have hopes of
[playing] a little better.So they told me what
they were going to pay
me, and I said,
“You want to buy a set of clubs? "
When asked why he was moving to the
U.S. to work as a golf analyst:
Because I've already insulted everyone in Europe.
Some pqiceless Feheqty
Quotes:That ball is so far left, Lassie couldn’t find it if it was wrapped in bacon.
I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn’t be here this week. He is
attending the birth of his next wife.
Jim Furyk’s
swing: It looks like an
octopus falling out of
a tree.
Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk
chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.Commenting on
John Daly's pants:
They're why the Hubble telescope is pointed away from
the earth.
With Gaqy
McCoqd
Some quotes from the fairer sex
It's not enough just to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle
and let 'er fly.
I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me,
it was permanent.
Babe Didrickson Zaharias
I expect to play golf until I am 90—even longer if anybody figures out
a way to swing a golf clubfrom a wheel chair
BabeDidricksonZaharias
The Babe is here. . .
Who’s coming in second?
Patty BergThere is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon
if you practice.
Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun. If you do, it breaks your heart.
Don’t break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.
Louise Suggs
Mickey WrightOn the game of Golf:
A never-ending challenge, frustratingbut never dull, infuriating but satisfying.
When you start thinking about what else you can do,you realize there’s nothing better than what we do.
Meg Mallon on retirement:
The simpler I keep things,The better I play.
Nancy Lopez
My swing is no uglierthan Arnold Palmer’s,
and it’s the same ugly swing every time.
Payne Stewart
In the end it's still a game ofgolf, and if at the end of the dayyou can't shake hands with youropponents and still befriends, then you've missed thepoint.
Life is like a Round of Golf
Life is like a round of golfWith many a turn and twist.But the game is much too sweet and shortTo curse the shots you’ve missed.
Sometimes you’ll hit it straight and farSometimes the putts roll true.But each round has it’s errant shotsAnd troubles to play through.
So always swing with courageNo matter what the lie.And never let the hazardsDestroy the joy inside.
And keep a song within your heartGive thanks that you can play.For the round is much too short and sweetTo let it slip away.
— Criswell Freeman