Golf Tee Off Quotes

#1. Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.

Bob Hope

#2. If it really made sense to "let the club do the work," you'd just say, "Driver, wedge to the green, one-putt," and walk to the next tee.

Tom Mulligan

#3. 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

#4. I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.

Bobby Jones

#5. I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green.

Gardner Dickinson

#6. If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.

Eric Nicol

#7. Golf is a stupid game. You tee up this little ball, really this tiny ball. Then you hit it, try to find it, hit it. And the goal is to get it into a little hole placed in a hard spot.

Juli Inkster

#8. If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Gary Player

#9. Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee.

Jimmy Demaret

#10. What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

Walter Hagen

#11. My dad always said, 'Beware of the guy who comes out on the first tee and he's got a terrible grip and a terrible golf swing. If he's in that tournament with you, there's a good chance he knows how to play with that type of golf swing,' and Bubba's that type of person," he said.

Golf Channel Staff

#12. Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.

Dave Marr

#13. I got so strong I felt like a giant ... When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.

Gary Player

#14. Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.

Buzz Osborne

#15. Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

Jack Nicklaus

#16. There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat

Larry Nelson

#17. Everything was fine until I walked on to the first tee!

Seve Ballesteros

#18. Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.

Henry Beard

#19. 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

#20. The fourth tee brings out a mixture of excitement and anticipation, for about 220 yards down the fairway you catch a glimpse of Stillwater Cove, and realize you'll be walking along this spectacular meeting of land and sea for the next two hours.

Doug Ferguson

#21. The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.

Tony Lema

#22. Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

Byron Nelson

#23. Now personally, I think the president should golf every day and never have a press conference. I want the leader of the free world to be as stress-free as possible. And if golf helps fade the psychic heat from the job, by all means tee it up often, Mr. President.

Mark McKinnon

#24. Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

Lee Trevino

#25. My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I'm also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.

Vinny Testaverde

#26. I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game.

J. C. Snead

#27. You ever go up to the tee and say, 'Don't hit it left, don't hit it right'? That's your conscious mind. My body knows how to play golf. I've trained it to do that. It's just a matter of keeping my conscious mind out of it.

Tiger Woods

#28. When I got to the first tee on the first day, to hear the cheers, it was like all the oxygen got sucked out. It was hard to pull the club back.

Patrick Reed

#29. What's the longest walk in golf? It's from the practice tee to the first tee. I don't care if it's 10 yards. It's the longest walk in golf. Winners take their swing with them. Losers don't.

Moe Norman

#30. Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

Jackie Gleason

#31. I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

Jack Nicklaus

#32. I'm really going to do my homework. I'm going to be down there on the practice tee finding out if a guy's wife beat him up the night before, important stuff like that. Stuff that people want to know.

Lee Trevino

#33. 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

#34. We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

Bob Hope