Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Profoundly inspirational golf quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
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Famous Golf Quotes
Golf is like a love affair. If you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. Arthur Daley
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G.K. Chesterton
The value of routine; trusting your swing. Lorii Myers
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. Dave Berry
The most important shot in golf is the next one. Ben Hogan
Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money. Lee Trevino
If you focus only on the target you’ll play darn good golf. Dr. Bob Rotella
Golf A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man’s sins. James Barrett Reston
The first thing golf teaches is humility, the second; empathy, and the third patience. Kirs E Wilson
Golf is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. P.G. Wodehouse
If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play at it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf. Bob Hope
If you’re 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
Golf is a game in which you yell fore, shoot six, and write down five. Paul Harvey
Golf, like measles, should be caught young. P.G. Wodehouse
Golf is 90 percent inspiration and 10 percent perspiration. Johnny Miller
I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it. Ewan McGregor
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf. It’s almost a law. H.G. Wells
Pressure is when you play $5 a hole with only $2 in your pocket. Lee Trevino
You know what they say about big hitters the woods are full of them. Jimmy Demaret
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. Gerald R Ford
Golf is a good walk spoiled. Mark Twain
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie. George Deukmejian
Mulligan invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. Jim Bishop
I have a tip that can take off five strokes of anyone’s golf game. It’s called an Eraser. Arnold Palmer
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. Horace G. Hutchinson
If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt. Dean Martin
I don’t let birdies and pars get in the way of having a good time. Angelo Spagnolo
The older you get, the stronger the wind gets; and it’s always in your face. Jack Nicklaus
Golf tips are like Aspirin One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you’ll be lucky to survive. Harvey Penick
To find a man’s true character, play golf with him. P G Wodehouse
Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off. Chi Chi Rodriguez
Swing hard in case you hit it. Dan Marino
They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken. Raymond Floyd
The better you putt, the bolder you play. Don January
Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. Bruce Crampton
I am not feeling really well, I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. Groucho Marx
There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection. Ben Hogan
Much of anyone’s game is played or should be played in the short six inch course between the ears. Louise Suggs
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character. Arnold Palmer
Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting. Peter Dobereiner
Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game. Gay Brewer
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Arnold Palmer
Golf is the loneliest sport. You’re completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man’s performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is. Hale Irwin
Forget your opponents. Always play against par. Sam Snead
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot. Sam Snead
Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You’ve got to believe. Jack Nicklaus
If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf. Percy Boomer
I smile at obstacles. Tiger Woods
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. Bobby Jones
Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference. Tom Watson
Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you. Lloyd Mangrum
Life is better when you’re golfing. Arnold Palmer
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. John Updike
The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two. Bobby Jones
Every shot counts. The three foot putt is as important as the 300 yard drive. Henry Cotton
Golf is not a game, it’s bondage. It was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins. Jim Murray
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. John Updike
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. William Wordsworth
Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together. Nick Faldo
Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime, in which you can exhaust yourself but never your subject. David Forgan
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course. Hank Aaron
There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection. Ben Hogan
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke. Jack Nicklaus
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It’s about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain. Celine Dion
Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots. Dr. Bob Rotella
I never learned anything from a match that I won. Bobby Jones
Never concede the putt that beats you. Harry Vardon
He that can have patience can have what he will. Benjamin Franklin
The mind messes up more shots than the body.Tommy Bolt
A kid grows up a lot faster on golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave. Jack Nicklaus
One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. Peter Jacobsen
This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money. Robert Kiyosaki
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. Arnold Palmer
Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration. Michael Greenberg
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying. Bobby Jones
Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management. Ben Hogan
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Arnold Palmer
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
Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. Tiger Woods
Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots. Dr. Bob Rotella
Golf’s ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it. John Updike
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter. Tiger Woods
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. Billy Graham
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death. Sam Snead
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make. Tina Weymouth
