Famous Golf Quotes

Watch a golfer plan the final shot. Eyes on the flag stick; putter firmly in hand. The tension is palpable; yet it does not unnerve the golfer's composure. It takes loads of practice and years of hard work to attain such self-control. Golf inculcates values such as tenacity and fortitude. Read these famous golf quotes to see things in the right perspective.

• Tommy Armour
  Love and putting are mysteries for the philosopher to solve. Both subjects are beyond golfers.

• Pete Dye
  The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

• Billy Graham
  The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

• Bobby Jones
  Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course -- the distance between your ears.

• Gerald Ford
  I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

• Brent Musburger
  I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.

• Bob Hope
  If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

• Harvey Penick
  Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

• Chuck Hogan
  Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

• William Wordsworth
  Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

• Henry Longhurst
  They say "practice makes perfect." Of course, it doesn't. For the vast majority of golfers it merely consolidates imperfection.

• Jim Bishop
  Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

• Bob Hope
  Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

• Bob Ryan
  A passion, an obsession, a romance, a nice acquaintanceship with trees, sand, and water.

• Paul Gallico
  If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

• Sam Snead
  Forget your opponents; always play against par.

• Gardner Dickinson
  They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.

• Will Rogers
  I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

• Arnold Palmer
  What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

• P. J. O'Rourke
  Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

• Dean Martin
  If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

• G. K. Chesterton
  I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

• Grantland Rice
  Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.