Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 11)

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

Chip Shot: A short, low approach shot that gets a player into position for one or more missed puts.

I don't have anywhere to put my elbows when I putt now.

professional golfer

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out of doors.

My golf is improving… yesterday I hit the ball in one!

A well-adjusted man is one who can play golf as if it were a game.

The least thing upsets him on the links; he missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

golf writer

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

The point is that it doesn't matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.

Spanish professional golfer

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

professional baseball player

He plays just like a union man… he negotiates the final score.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president

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

(1918 – ) American Christian evangelist

Golf: An ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable sphere into an inaccessible hole with instruments ill-adapted to the purpose.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.

(1927 – ) British journalist & author

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

(1908 – 2004) British/American journalist, television personality & broadcaster

I don’t think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

professional golfer & commentator