Top 41 Golf Tournament Quotes
#1. I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.
Curtis Joseph
#2. I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.
Tom Lehman
#3. I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
#4. I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.
Terry Bradshaw
#5. I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation.
David Duval
#6. Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.
Bill Cosby
#7. At a certain point in the [golf] tournament, it becomes a match play event and becomes a match play event against who is on the leaderboard, so you have to know who is there to do what you're going to try to do.
Jack Nicklaus
#8. I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.
Trent Dilfer
#9. I've really got no complaints about the way I played, just extremely frustrating with the putter and I'm sure there's a lot of other players saying the same thing except the guy who's going to win the golf tournament.
Greg Norman
#10. The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
Alistair Cooke
#11. There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.
Grantland Rice
#12. Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or any other golf tournament.
Dan Jenkins
#13. This is a tournament. The others are all championships.
Jack Nicklaus
#14. I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.
Jamie Farr
#15. I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
Rafael Nadal
#16. I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.
Jack Nicklaus
#17. A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.
Thomas Boswell
#18. Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.
Lindsey Vonn
#19. You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.
Sean Connery
#20. The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
Dan Jenkins
#21. Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
Jack Nicklaus
#22. To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.
Lee Trevino
#23. I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf.
Greg Norman
#24. The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.
Phil Mickelson
#25. As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
Barbara Bush
#26. I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.
Eric Dickerson
#27. I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.
John Daly
#28. When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.
Steve-O
#29. We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.
Darius Rucker
#30. I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.
Raymond Floyd
#31. So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.
Greg Norman
#32. We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money.
Tom Kite
#33. In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
Pat Summerall
#34. Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have.
Bubba Watson
#35. 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
#36. I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.
Tom Kite
#37. When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.
Joe Jamail
#38. Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.
Karrie Webb
#39. Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.
Toney Penna
#40. There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that.
Arnold Palmer
#41. Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.
Tiger Woods
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