Golf Quotes - Page 7

• Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

  Charles Rosin

  Games, Choices, Golf Game

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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, Effort, Ratios

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• Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Fun, Half, Funny Golf

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• Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.

  John Updike

  Together, Scratches, Common Experience

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.125, Random House

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• If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?

  Ben Hogan

  Men, Reason Why, Holes

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• There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

  Robert Browning

  Three, Way, Bitter

  Robert Browning (1985). “A History of Golf”

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• For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

  Dave Barry

  Balls, Literature, Hitting

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• I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Real, Play, Half

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• Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

  Andy Rooney

  Funny, Watches, Television

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• Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

  Ken Venturi

  Money, Memories, Victory

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• Forget the last shot. It takes so long to accept that you can't always replicate your swing. The only thing you can control is your attitude toward the next shot.

  Mark McCumber

  Attitude, Swings, Long

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• Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

  Bob Hope

  Age, Ifs

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• I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Remember, Funny Fishing, Bigs

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• I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Missing, Helping, Praying

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• Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

  Lee Trevino

  Dirty, Gold, World

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• Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

  Tiger Woods

  Honesty, What Matters, Achievement

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• I read the greens in Spanish, but I putt in English.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

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• They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

  Gardner Dickinson

  Believe, Complicated, Funny Golf

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

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

  Dave Barry (1985). “Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead”, p.32, Rodale

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• Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Games, Shots

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• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Swings, Sound

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• Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

  Arnold Palmer

  Wisdom, Natural Gifts, Accumulation

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• The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

  Mike Weir

  Beauty, Golf Clubs

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• Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Games

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