Quotes About Golf Greens

#1. Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#2. Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

Robert Redford

#3. Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

A. W. Tillinghast

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.

George Gobel

#7. Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

Andy Rooney

#8. Not only are three-putt greens probable, at times they are an achievment.

Charley Pride

#9. Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.

Bob Hope

#10. I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.

Annika Sorenstam

#11. I read the greens in Spanish, but I putt in English.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#12. It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose.

Tiger Woods

#13. Augusta is a very unique golf course. It's a long hitters' course; main reason is because the greens are so severe, and the areas where they put the pin is such a small area. The little plateaus and undulations mean it's incredibly important to be close to that pin so you can be aggressive.

Fred Funk

#14. All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

Ben Hogan

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I am very pleased with my synthetic golf green from Southwest Greens. It reacts like a championship golf green, so I can practice my short game whenever I'm at home. I couldn't believe that a synthetic green could be this perfect.

Matteo Manassero