You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't…

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

— Heywood Hale Broun

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through…

— Bruce McCall

There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually…

— Peter Andrews

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

— Adlai Stevenson I

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The…

— Michael Bamberger

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we…

— George Archer

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

— Henry Beard

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an…

— Gerald R. Ford

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

— Ben Crenshaw

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

— Fletcher Knebel

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

— Keith Michael

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

— Robin Williams

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

— Mac O'Grady

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count…

— Harry Vardon

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

— Brian Tracy