Golf Quotes - Page 31

• With the goal of crafting a course that fits harmoniously with its surroundings, we took full advantage of the dramatic vistas, indigenous flora and beautiful rolling terrain to create a memorable golf experience for members and resort guests.

  Pete Dye

  Beautiful, Memorable, Goal

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• I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.

  Bobby Jones

  Lying, Play, Get Better

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• I can't see anyone coming out, because the players feel it is no one's business. We all stick together. We're a very tight group. It would be too hard for just one person to do, too stressful. And why should it make a difference? The LPGA is about golf.

  Hollis Stacy

  Player, Differences, Making A Difference

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• The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball.

  Hollis Stacy

  Games, Competition, Different

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• I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.

  Hollis Stacy

  Baby, College, Thinking

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• Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.

  Hollis Stacy

  Bumps, Economy, Lost

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• I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.

  Ernie Holmes

  Play, People, Tree

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• Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.

  Paula Creamer

  Teacher, Fun, Disappointment

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• Every woman should recruit a female friend to take up golf so there will be more women available to play.

  Paula Creamer

  Play, Female, Should

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• I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

  Paula Creamer

  Avid, Games, Reader

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• I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.

  Paula Creamer

  Play, Said, Harder

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• I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

  Jessica Ennis

  Feet, Balls, Band

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• Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

  George Archer

  Hunting, Fishing, Fellowship

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• Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, One Day, Height

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• How do you combat a man with a firearm? You don't combat him with a golf club, baseball bat or a knife. You combat him with another firearm.

  Luke Scott

  Baseball, Men, Knives

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• The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

  Bobby Jones

  Enemy, Tension

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• The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

  Bobby Jones

  Beats, Objects

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• Golf is the one game I know
  which becomes more and more
  difficult the longer one plays it.

  Bobby Jones

  Games, Play, Difficult

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

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• The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way.

  Harry Vardon

  Successful, Play, Way

  Harry Vardon (1922). “Progressive Golf”

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• I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

  Ben Hogan

  Believe, Swings, Natural

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• I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the game and practicing it. Whether my schedule for the following day called for a tournament round or merely a trip to the practice tee, the prospect that there was going to be golf in it made me feel privileged and extremely happy, and I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Wonderful Friends, Practice

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Good golf begins with a good grip.

  Ben Hogan

  Good Golf

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Player, Thinking, Care

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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, Men, Thinking

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• I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Play, Musician, Too Much

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