Top 100 Quotes About Golf Course
#1. A golf course can be a very risky place in the early evening for those who aren't aware of the dangers. Who knows when a golf ball might come flying out of nowhere?
Haruki Murakami
#2. When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.
Tiger Woods
#3. 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
#4. I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.
Lee Trevino
#5. I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.
Lou Holtz
#6. What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.
Amy Alcott
#7. You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.
P. J. O'Rourke
#8. Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.
Walter Hagen
#9. I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!
Paula Creamer
#10. Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea ...
Anne Sexton
#11. I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.
Paula Creamer
#12. That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.
Greg Norman
#13. Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person.
A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the golf course and/or workplace and the people there are important.
Lorii Myers
#14. I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.
Anton Du Beke
#15. 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
Manny Farber
#16. A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
Jack Nicklaus
#17. 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
#18. When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well.
Condoleezza Rice
#19. But we do have a golf course near by and I play fairly regularly.
Perry Como
#20. But, to Shepherd, life seemed to be laid out like a golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and with a definite summing up - for comparison with others scores - after each hole.
Kurt Vonnegut
#21. Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.
Sam Snead
#22. A good golf course is like good music. It does not necessarily appeal the first time one plays it.
Alister MacKenzie
#23. When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.
Terry O'Quinn
#24. It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." - George Herman "Babe" Ruth
Anonymous
#25. I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
Zach Johnson
#26. If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
Dan Jenkins
#27. I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.
Jack Abramoff
#28. I say the American Medical Association ought to get the hell off the golf course and answer this question ...
Dave Barry
#29. I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
Zach Johnson
#30. I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring.
Ian Poulter
#31. A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.
Osbert Sitwell
#32. I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.
Don Adams
#33. When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
Inbee Park
#34. Age, they say, is only important if you're cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?
Terry Wogan
#35. I'm not a huge shopper. I love looking good - obviously, on the golf course I like looking sharp, that's for sure. I'm just not into knowing brands.
Lexi Thompson
#36. Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course
Larry David
#37. Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.
Ben Shapiro
#38. If you are 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.
Lee Trevino
#39. If you ever feel sorry for somebody on a golf course, you better go home. If you don't kill them, they'll kill you.
Seve Ballesteros
#40. Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.
Tiger Woods
#41. When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain.
Al Michaels
#42. My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that the Kroft family did. I kind of grew up on the golf course.
Steve Kroft
#43. My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.
Arnold Palmer
#44. Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
Bill Murray
#45. So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but ... they had a golf course.
George Carlin
#46. You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.
Arnold Palmer
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here.
Tiger Woods
#51. They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#52. How, exactly, did I kill him? He died on the golf course." One minute he'd been practicing his swing, and in the next - phzzt - a freak lightning bolt had hit him right in the nine iron. His shoes were still smoking when she reached him.
Cheryl Sterling
#53. 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
#54. I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
Tiger Woods
#55. I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.
Ben Hogan
#56. One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#57. I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
Mac Davis
#58. I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.
Raymond Floyd
#59. I will fall in love with any golf course that you have to drive the ball straight. You understand what I'm saying? That's my advantage. My advantage wasn't putting. In fact, I wasn't even a great putter or a good putter.
Lee Trevino
#60. I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.
Jeremy London
#61. Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.
Ray Romano
#62. I do spend really focused time with my wife, my kids, grandkids, and so when I'm doing something or on a golf course, work has stopped. I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.
Mike Duke
#63. I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs.
Tom Lehman
#64. Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.
Paula Creamer
#65. 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
#66. It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
#67. Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.
Noreena Hertz
#68. I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.
Mike Weir
#69. I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good.
Michelle Wie
#70. You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.
Donald Trump
#71. Golf course design is exciting.
Tom Kite
#72. I've always - I grew up on the old-style traditional type of golf course, tree lined and all small greens, big undulations. And Oakmont just fit my eye.
Paula Creamer
#73. When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.
Charlie Sifford
#74. I can honestly say in my entire career, I've never gone around a golf course and not mis-hit a shot, but today I never missed a shot. I hit every driver perfect, every iron perfect. I'm in awe of myself.
Greg Norman
#75. I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.
Boo Weekley
#76. Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.
Jack Nicklaus
#77. It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.
Bob Hope
#78. I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you do, don't come up short.
Evel Knievel
#79. There's going to be places where you can attack the golf course and there's going to be times where you've got to kind of bite your lip and play conservative and hit to certain spots on the green, get out of there with a par and move on.
Jim Furyk
#80. Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.
Dennis Quaid
#81. A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
Jean Giraudoux
#82. When I heard the draw I was out on the golf course. I had an eight-iron in one hand and my mobile in the other. When we came out with United, my club went further than the ball.
Harry Redknapp
#83. There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.
Greg Norman
#84. I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.
Jane Blalock
#85. The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
A.A. Milne
#86. I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.
Ben Crenshaw
#87. I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#88. Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.
Jack Nicklaus
#89. There are many who do not like ESMA being a museum with tours for members of the public and foreign tourists; they want to knock it down and create a park with a golf course 'so that society can forget'.
Paul Vallely
#90. Me too. Do you want to meet me at the golf course after you get off work tomorrow? Then we can see each other all afternoon."
"That sounds good."
Which it did. But even if she'd said "Do you want to meet me at the surface of the sun?" I'd still have agreed to it.
Mindi Scott
#91. Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.
Nancy Mitford
#92. It's great to have a lot of support; people recognizing what you're doing out there and identifying with you in whatever way they see fit is a great fit, I think, and for me it's neat, for people to want to come to the golf course and watch me play golf.
Jason Dufner
#93. A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.
Thomas Friedman
#94. The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
Confucius
#95. Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?
Phil Silvers
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. This is happening all over the world. It's not just this golf course. Hopefully, if it stays dry, it will let a few more people in (contention). If it gets wet, though, there's only a few people where it's attainable.
Ben Crenshaw
#100. Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
Caitlyn Jenner
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