Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Carnegie

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

Don Rickles

I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

Craig Stadler

Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well.

Dan Jenkins

Every golfer has at least 14 enemies: his clubs.

Dan Jenkins

Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.

Dan Jenkins

If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.

Dan Jenkins

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

Dan Jenkins

There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

Dan Jenkins

I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.

Dan Jenkins

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

Dan Jenkins

Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

Dan Jenkins

A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.

Clint Eastwood

Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.

Dustin Johnson

I enjoy playing it every time I step on the course.

Dustin Johnson

I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played.

Donald Trump

You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people.

Donald Trump

I try and stay out of the sun for the most part. I wear a hat. I play golf. And I wear a hat. But I've had no problem - no major problem - but certainly no problem with skin.

Amy Alcott

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

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.

Amy Alcott

My parents didn't play golf.

Catriona Matthew

If it's at a good golf course, you're going to get a good field. And then there's scheduling. If it's in the right place on the schedule, you go.

Maybe my naivety at not understanding how tough it is is a good thing, because so many golfers see it as mecca,

Ben Hogan

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

Ben Hogan

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

Ben Hogan

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

Ben Hogan

Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.

Ben Hogan

I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

Ben Hogan

Good golf begins with a good grip.

Ben Hogan

Golf was my life. I didn't want to give it up. So I went to work!

Ben Hogan

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Ben Hogan

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game.

Ben Hogan

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

Ben Hogan

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.