Golf Course Quotes

• A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Golf, Space, House

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Golf, Doctors

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• Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Sports, Athlete

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• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports

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• I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Successful, Golf

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• I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

  Paul Pierce

  Golf, College, Kansas

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• I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

  Mac Davis

  Redneck, Golf, Guy

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• I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

  Babe Ruth

  Golf, Needs, Green

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• Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

  Ed McMahon

  Real, Golf, Estates

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• I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Golf, Answers

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• I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Mouths

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• If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

  Adam Carolla

  Real, Golf, Gay

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• For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

  Mark Foley

  Beautiful, Beach, Golf

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• A good golf course is like good music or good anything else; it is not necessarily a course which appeals the first time one plays over it, but one which grows on the player the more frequently he visits it.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Golf, Play, Firsts

  "Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping".

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• When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Long, Balls

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• A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Golf, Purpose, Towns

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• Golf course design is exciting.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Golf, Design

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• No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Men, Games

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• I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today.

  King Edward VIII

  Golf, America, Today

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• The best exercise for golfers is golfing.

  Bobby Jones

  Exercise, Golf, Golfers

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• I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

  Bobby Jones

  Fun, Golf, Men

  Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books

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• A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Skills, Two

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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• All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, West, Break

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• As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

  Ben Hogan

  Inspirational, Sports, Friday

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