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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sep 10, 2025
Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.
It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.
Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.
You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.
My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.
Forget your opponents; always play against par.
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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.
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
The harder you work, the luckier you become.
The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.
My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.
Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.
Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.