Great golfing Quotes · Page 2

Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

— Dave Marr

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

— Lee Trevino

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

— Patty Berg

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

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

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

— Paul Harvey

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

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

— Ken Venturi

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

— John Updike

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

— Ben Hogan

The woods are full of long drivers.

— Harvey Penick

It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle.…

— Al McGuire

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

— Ben Hogan

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

— Jack Nicklaus

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

— Gardner Dickinson

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

— Bobby Jones

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

— Winston Churchill

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

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

— Pete Dye

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

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

— George Archer

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

— Ben Hogan

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

— Bobby Jones

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

— Bob Hope

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

— Lee Trevino