Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 12)

Impossible Lie: In golf, a ball that is in a position that is both completely obstructed by an immovable object and continuously observed by an incorruptible player.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

Man blames most accidents on fate – but feels a more personal responsibility when he makes a hole-in-one on the golf course.

They're why the Hubble telescope is pointed away from the earth.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

I figured out why they took out 8,000 trees at Oakmont. It's so people won't hang themselves.

professional golf caddie

Four-letter Word: Par for the coarse.

That sounded like he hit a roll of wet toilet paper.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist

Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself.

sports commentator

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

(1907 – 1987) American journalist & author

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

I think they just got through marinating the greens.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

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.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

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

American professional golfer

There is an old saying: If a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

The people who gave us golf and called it a game are the same people who gave us bag pipes and called it music.

A professional will tell you the amount of flex you need in the shaft of your club. The more the flex, the more strength you will need to break the thing over your knees.

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

Irish journalist & author

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

American sportswriter

I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

(1902 – 1971) American comedian & singer