Golf Quotes

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I have one of those stupid calendars on my desk (a gift). Today's quote made me laugh though.

Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously it's no fun, but if you do it breaks your heart.

What other quotes (funny, serious or thought provoking) spring to mind?
 
I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser. ~Arnold Palmer

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. ~ Tiger Woods

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. ~ Dave Barry

Reffering to his heavyweight caddie Herman Mitchell- I always know which side a putt will break. It always slopes toward the side of the green Herman's standing.
~Lee Trevino

On how to play through a lightning storm - Hold up a one iron and walk. Not even God can hit a one iron.
~ Lee Trevino



 
I was given a book full of them the other day.

In My house in Houston I still have the putter with which I missed that 2 1/2 foot putt to win The Open. It's in two pieces- Doug Saunders

Defeat is worse than death, because you have to live with defeat- Nick Faldo

The fat bellies have slimmed down as the purses have grown fatter- Sam Torrance

More people have fantasised about killing me than they have about killing Jack The Ripper- Robert Trent Jones (Course designer)
 
I laughed at this one;
Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And it took a seven to do that. ~Jim Murray
 
"Golf fairways should be made more narrow. Then everyone would have to play from the rough, not just me." - Seve Ballesteros
 
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