Ball Quote by John Updike

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

— Ernie Els

“And we were taught to play golf. Golf epitomizes the tame world. On a golf course nature is neutered. The grass is clean, a…

— Jay Griffiths

Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

— Henry Beard

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless…

— Craig Brown

I don't mind when I hit a ball in the woods. I think of it as an adventure. That's when golf really starts to…

— Michelle Wie

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and…

— Dan Jenkins

Golf balls are sweet: dimpled and sometimes even smiling.

— Steve Rushin

Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge,…

— Mike Seabrook

Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination...…

— Herbert Wind

My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional…

— John Updike

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only…

— Rick Bayan

Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind…

— Timothy Gallwey