Subject: Sports » Golf (Page 9)

What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist

Playing golf is like going to a strip joint… after 18 holes you’re tired and most of your balls are missing.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

I like to play in the low 70′s… if it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!

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

If you’d offered me a 69 at the start this morning I’d have been all over you.

Scottish professional golfer

I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

professional golfer

We learn so many things from golf – how to suffer, for instance.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist

Golf: A long walk broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating… the other 20 percent lied.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist

His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

My best score ever was 103. But I've only been playing fifteen years.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

I’m having problems with my putting; but it’s the puttee, not the putter.

professional golfer

Golf, especially championship golf, isn't supposed to be fun, was never meant to be fair, and never will make any sense.

author

Hole-In-One: An occurrence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole on a single shot by a golfer playing alone.

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

American professional golfer

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

(1770 – 1850) English Romantic poet

When the ducks are walking, you know it is too windy to be playing golf.

American professional golfer

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and golf. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with golf.

When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

One of the finest sights in the world: the other man's ball dropping in the water – preferably so that he can see it but cannot quite reach it and has therefore to leave it there, thus rendering himself so mad that he loses the next hole as well.

British golf writer & commentator