Golf Course Quotes - Page 8

• I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Thinking

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• I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Opposites

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• I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way

  Ben Crenshaw

  Fun, Golf, Play

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• This is happening all over the world. It's not just this golf course. Hopefully, if it stays dry, it will let a few more people in (contention). If it gets wet, though, there's only a few people where it's attainable.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Golf, People, World

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• I love Merion and I don't even know her last name.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Names, Lasts

  "Merion returns to US Open stage, along with an appearance by Mother Nature", www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2013.

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• I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs.

  Tom Lehman

  Golf, Thinking, Whole Life

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• You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

  Bob Feller

  Heart, Golf, Player

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• When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Tests, Equipment

  Tiger’s World Challenge press conference, news.tigerwoods.com. November 27, 2012.

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• There's going to be places where you can attack the golf course and there's going to be times where you've got to kind of bite your lip and play conservative and hit to certain spots on the green, get out of there with a par and move on.

  Jim Furyk

  Moving, Golf, Play

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• The older I get, the better I was.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Wine, Golf, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

  Jeremy London

  Dad, Golf, Race

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• Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course

  Larry David

  Witty, Rain, Golf

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• Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.

  Hal Boyle

  Baby, Grandma, Golf

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• This is one of the most special golf courses in the planet.

  Graeme McDowell

  Golf, Special, Planets

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• In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference.

  Ben Wicks

  Golf, Differences, Follow Through

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• I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Beach, Golf, Men

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• The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.

  Bob Allen

  Funny, Golf, Effort

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• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Distance, Golf

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• This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

  Mike Weir

  Missing You, Sports, Golf

  PGA Championship press conference, www.pga.com. August 15, 2003.

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• I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.

  Ray Floyd

  Monday, Golf, Practice

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• I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

  Betty Ford

  Golf, Swimming, Empty Life

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• 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.

  Confucius

  Distance, Golf, Two

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• The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.

  David Simon

  Golf, Bonus, Golden

  Interview with David Doody, www.utne.com. September 2011.

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• I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

  Ben Hogan

  Mean, Golf, Done

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• I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

  Ray Floyd

  Golf, Squash, Attention

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