Golf Quotes - Page 10

• Forget your opponents; always play against par.

  Sam Snead

  Play, Focus, Competition

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• A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

  Lee Trevino

  Should Have, Giving, Gutters

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• The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.

  Jerry Barber

  Age, Easier

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• Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

  Herbert Wind

  Lonely, Paris, Would Be

  Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “The Story of American Golf: Its Champions and Championships, 1888–1975”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

  Walter Hagen

  Practice, Waste, Shame

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• Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.

  Walter Hagen

  Flags

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• To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Thinking, Guilt, Truthful

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• The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.

  Sean Connery

  Brotherhood, Terrible

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• Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at tennis than Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova, but they will never lift a club or swing a racket and therefore will never find out how great they could have been. Instead, they'll be content to sit and watch stars perform on television.

  Donald Trump

  Stars, Men, Swings

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.37, Random House

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• Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.

  Henry Beard

  Swings, Balls, Clubs

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• Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.

  Doug Sanders

  Use, Razors, Dull

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• The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

  Dan Jenkins

  Snow, Soul, Avalanches

  Dan Jenkins (2015). “DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

  Bob Hope

  Lying, Caddies, Balls

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• Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

  Ken Venturi

  Running, Art, Distance

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• A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

  Mac O'Grady

  Thinking, Different Universes, White

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• Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.

  Sam Snead

  Play, Sick, Architect

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• Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Thinking, Numbers

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• Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.

  Dave Marr

  Eye, Iron, Bags

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• I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?

  Tommy Bolt

  Caddies, Clubs, Want

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• I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

  Peter Jacobsen

  Missing, Balls, Holes

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  What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational Sports, Art, Athlete

  Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel.

  Tommy Bolt

  Eye, Knives, Games

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• Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

  Nancy Lopez

  Games, Play, Trying

  Nancy Lopez (1989). “Nancy Lopez's the Complete Golfer”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Running, Tired, Flags

  Alister MacKenzie, H.S. Colt , A.W. Tillinghast (2013). “Methods of Early Golf Architecture: The Selected Writings of Alister MacKenzie, H.S. Colt, and A.W. Tillinghast”, p.24, Coventry House Publishing

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• The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

  Bobby Jones

  Games, Play, Littles

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