Great golfing Quotes

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

— Peter Dobereiner

Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.

— Cary Middlecoff

May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

— Ben Hogan

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

— Bobby Nichols

The woods are full of long drivers.

— Harvey Penick

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

— Ernie Banks

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

— Keith Michael

Happiness is a long walk with a putter.

— Greg Norman

The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.

— Tony Lema

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest…

— Gene Littler

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

— George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

— Pete Dye

One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

— George Archer

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole.…

— Chuck Hogan

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk…

— Lee Trevino

Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf…

— A. P. Herbert

They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have…

— Tommy Bolt

On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman…

— Matt Dickinson

The more you play it the less you know about it.

— Patty Berg

Never admit that your back goes out more than you do

— Joan Rivers

I've been fortunate to have some great golfing buddies.

— Kelly Rohrbach

Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

— Madonna Ciccone

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

— Ben Hogan

His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.

— Ian Baker-Finch

Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

— Dave Marr

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

— Bobby Jones

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

— Ben Hogan

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

— Lee Trevino

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

— Bobby Jones

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

— Winston Churchill

It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good…

— Nubar Gulbenkian

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

— Sam Snead

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

— Ben Crenshaw

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.

— Ben Hogan

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

— Jack Nicklaus

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

— Tommy Bolt