Top 100 Great Golf Quotes
#1. Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.
Fred Couples
#2. The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different.
Tiger Woods
#3. Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.
John F. Kennedy
#4. Owning a great golf course gives you great power.
Donald Trump
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.
Amy Alcott
#8. I expect myself to do well. I'm not, like, 'Oh, well.' I'm not in that category just yet. I don't play great golf a lot anymore. I do it every now and then. I finished third in the British Open last year, so I know I can still do it.
Fred Couples
#9. There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.
Johnny Miller
#10. Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.
Jerry Pate
#11. There are a number of golfers who are playing great golf in their 40s.
Retief Goosen
#12. You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.
David Duval
#13. There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus
#14. I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.
Jack Nicklaus
#15. I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.
Webb Simpson
#16. I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.
Hal Sutton
#17. If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.
Sam Snead
#18. A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.
Jay Leno
#19. We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
#20. Such is putting! 2% technique, 98% inspiration or confidence or touch ... the only thing great putters have in common is touch and that is the critical ingredient ... none of them found it through mechanizing a stroke, nor do I believe they could maintain it that way.
Jack Nicklaus
#21. The USGA doesn't want to recognize the fact that today's players are better than ever. They seem willing to do anything to prevent us from shooting scores that would make us appear better than the great names of the past.
Hale Irwin
#22. I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.
Kapil Dev
#23. Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.
Gary Player
#24. The TV and the public pay our wages and they like to see professional golfers mess it up. Missing a green with a chip shot - when do you see that? It's great to see exciting golf like we had last week.
Paul McGinley
#25. Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.
Dan Quayle
#27. Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.
Thomas Friedman
#28. You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.
Amy Alcott
#29. The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.
David Feherty
#30. You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.
Gary Player
#31. Every day I try to tell myself that this is going to be fun today. I try to put myself in a great frame of mind before I go out - then I screw it up with the first shot.
Johnny Miller
#32. The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.
Richard Prince
#33. My boyfriend loves golf and he is good at it but I am not that great at it. It drives me nuts, but I'm super competitive and I always want to win.
Danica Patrick
#34. The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.
Johnny Miller
#35. The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet
Kevin Keegan
#36. I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.
Condoleezza Rice
#37. A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.
Ben Sayers
#38. Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?
Tiger Woods
#39. 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
#40. As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Kenneth Bock
#41. Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.
A. W. Tillinghast
#42. It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division.
Bob Hope
#43. There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
Bill Paxton
#44. Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.
Eric Heiden
#46. Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.
Bobby Nichols
#47. In Chestnut Hill money didn't talk, but it drank, and played a lot of golf.
Alistair McHarg
#48. I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was 12. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. If you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.
Bubba Watson
#49. 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
#50. I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.
Paula Creamer
#51. An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we're lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.
Paula Creamer
#52. The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.
Rory McIlroy
#53. You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.
Bernhard Langer
#54. I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.
Kenny G
#55. I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.
Matthew McConaughey
#56. What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.
Arnold Palmer
#57. All the things that I have derived either directly or indirectly through the game of golf are things I owe a great deal to the game and to the people who support the game.
Arnold Palmer
#58. The great thing about golf - and this is the reason why a lot of health experts like me recommend it - you can drink beer and ride in a cart while you play.
Dave Barry
#59. Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.
Earl Blaik
#60. Relaxing is important; I would like to do more! Golf is a pretty good attempt, but good television, I find, is a great way to chill out and let it do the thinking for you. As long as the programme has got some substance and is well made, happy as a par round of 72!
Mark Hadlow
#61. New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.
Hale Irwin
#62. Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.
Francis Ouimet
#63. What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.
Walter Hagen
#64. Dennis Murray is a wonderful Golf Professional who is personable and skillful as an instructor. Dennis helped me work on my golf swing for a full week back in the 80's when I was still playing the PGA Tour. His instruction was great and helped my game very much.
Jerry Pate
#65. Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.
Havelock Ellis
#66. You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
Hank Ketcham
#67. One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#68. I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always.
David Chang
#69. There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.
John Updike
#70. My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.
John Daly
#71. The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.
Rory McIlroy
#72. 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
#73. The media says, "How in the world can you do this? You're here, you're in Great Britain, you're in the UK, and they just had the Brexit vote, and you're talking about your golf course?" Trump says, "Yeah, and you know what? The falling pound is even gonna help my business here."
Rush Limbaugh
#74. I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.
Len Goodman
#75. Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper
#76. Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it.
Vijay Singh
#77. And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
Shia Labeouf
#78. The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.
P. J. O'Rourke
#79. You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
Adam Derek Scott
#81. For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
Larry Fitzgerald
#82. If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport ... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.
Charlie Sifford
#83. The early versions of 'Shell's Wonderful World of Golf' were great. It's sort of interesting: as it progressed, it became worse and worse, but the early versions were really fantastic with Jimmy Demaret and Gene Sarazen. They were classics.
Donald Trump
#84. Golf's a great game, and you meet a lot of people along the way.
Matt Kuchar
#85. It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.
Craig Brown
#86. The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.
William J. Clinton
#87. A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
Harry Vardon
#88. I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
Zach Johnson
#89. The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
P.G. Wodehouse
#90. It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.
Tom Kite
#91. 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
#92. It's a great feeling to know that I've played the best golf throughout the season of any of the guys for the second time in three years, it's really nice.
Rory McIlroy
#93. I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.
Dennis Quaid
#94. Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Tina Weymouth
#95. Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.
Peter Andrews
#96. Life is great and golf has been one of the great parts of it for me.
George Lopez
#97. Never admit that your back goes out more than you do
Joan Rivers
#98. I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.
Cilla Black
#99. For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
Michael Jordan
#100. We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.
Bernhard Langer
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