Top 77 Bad Golf Quotes
#1. It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?
John Goodman
#2. I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.
Robert Stack
#3. A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
Harry Vardon
#5. I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.
David Duval
#6. The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.
William J. Clinton
#7. A good putter is a match for anyone. A bad putter is a match for no one.
Harvey Penick
#8. One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.
George Archer
#9. Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A.A. Milne
#10. Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
Bobby Jones
#11. It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.
Nubar Gulbenkian
#12. The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.
Arnold Palmer
#13. Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.
Ernie Els
#14. I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game.
Tiger Woods
#15. I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.
Darrell Royal
#16. I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.
Lee Trevino
#17. In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.
Ivan Lendl
#18. You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.
Mac O'Grady
#19. It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg.
J. C. Snead
#20. Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.
Arnold Palmer
#21. Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.
Walter Hagen
#22. My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.
Jason Aldean
#23. US President Gerald Ford's golf was so bad we thought he was a 'Hitman for the PGA!
Bob Hope
#24. I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf.
Padraig Harrington
#25. What's nice about our tour is you can't remember your bad shots.
Bob Bruce
#27. If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.
Michelle Wie
#28. If you hit a bad shot, just tell yourself it is great to be alive, relaxing and walking around on a beautiful golf course. The next shot will be better.
Al Geiberger
#29. Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
Amy Alcott
#30. There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.
Tommy Bolt
#31. When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake.
Ken Green
#32. I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.
Notah Begay III
#33. The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
P.G. Wodehouse
#34. I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I've played with golfers who've done that, and I really hate to see it. If I did something like that, my dad would come get the putter and hit me upside the head with it. I knew better.
Lucas Black
#35. The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman
a matter of millimetres.
Ian Fleming
#36. Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
Bobby Jones
#37. Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.
Earl Wilson
#38. Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.
Phil Blackmar
#39. I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it's silly to let the game get to you. When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I'm breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club.
Bob Hope
#40. You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You're going to miss putts out on an LPGA tour and have bad rounds. You just have to think to yourself that you always have tomorrow, and you're lucky enough to be out here just playing golf for a living.
Lexi Thompson
#41. Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.
Bobby Jones
#42. Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.
Miller Barber
#43. I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
Jack Nicklaus
#44. I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I've got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won't bite me when I come home.
Cary Middlecoff
#45. There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.
William Davis
#46. Hey, how 'bout those Cubs'"-the bad male impersonation was back-" 'let's play some golf, smoke some cigars. Here's my penis, there's yours-yep, they appear to be about the same size-okay, lets's do some deals.
Julie James
#47. That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.
Tom Watson
#48. I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realised that my life wasn't so bad.
Steve Pate
#49. As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.
Raymond Floyd
#50. I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.
Joanne Harris
#51. I don't apologize for my clothes. There are a lot of bad dressers in golf, and I don't think I'm one of them. There are a lot of bad dressers in every business.
Sergio Garcia
#53. I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.
Jeff Foxworthy
#54. It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.
Albert Belle
#55. 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.
Bobby Jones
#56. No matter what happens - never give up a hole ... In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
Sam Snead
#57. That "I don't give a darn" attitude is probably why I've shot so many good final rounds over the years when I started the day a few shots behind with nothing to lose ... and maybe that's why I've shot so many bad last rounds when I was ahead and knew I couldn't afford a mistake.
Jack Nicklaus
#58. The actual distance a bad golfer is going to hit the ball with any club obviously depends on many factors, not the least of which is whether the ball was actually hit at all.
Leslie Nielsen
#59. My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.
Lee Trevino
#61. At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.
Lee P. Brown
#62. Life is nothing but a memory. People who dwell on the bad ones aren't going to have a whole lot of good ones coming up.
John Daly
#63. Don't let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners.
Paul Runyan
#64. Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.
Robin Williams
#65. He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
Mickey Mantle
#66. Who can say I have a bad swing? The only thing that matters in golf is the score you put on the board. You don't have to look pretty out there, you have to win. Look at my record and tell me who has a better swing than mine.
Lee Trevino
#67. I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel
which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.
Dustin Johnson
#68. I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game. You're going to hit bad shots, you're going to be in bad spots, and each course, when you learn it, you learn where not to go.
Tiger Woods
#69. Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.
Nick Faldo
#70. He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear
even one the size of a golf club
was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.
Kristin Hannah
#71. The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.
Mike Bove
#72. I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.
Johnny Miller
#73. Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
Ben Hogan
#74. I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.
Walter Hagen
#75. Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.
Paul Azinger
#76. It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
Jack Nicklaus
#77. You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.
Evel Knievel
