Golf Quotes (1446 Quotes)

Because of that I freed up a little and allowed myself to play the golf I can.

This is a classic example of why the ethics rules have to be reformed. The Scotland trip was a trip to play golf, pure and simple, and private interests should not be allowed to finance those kinds of trips and gain influence with members in return.

You can't put a price on that kind of publicity. There aren't many tournaments that give a golf course national attention for a whole week. This is one of them.

Last week I was watching a bit of golf on TV and I could feel my fingers and my feet tapping because I'm ready to go now.

The entire evening was an unforgettable experience, ... But to be surprised with the Patty Berg Award at the end of the night was icing on the cake, the honor of a lifetime. One of the most rewarding aspects of my time as commissioner has been getting to know and appreciate the founders and all they have done for the LPGA, golf and women's sports. To receive an award from one of those founders, the great Patty Berg, leaves me humbled and deeply grateful. I couldn't have asked for a better farewell.

As long as our kids can focus on playing their games and not worry about what everybody else is shooting at them and they take care of attacking the golf course, I think we'll be OK,

I told Tom Meeks, 'If you lose the golf course, you'd better hide -- but there's going to be no place to hide, because we're going to find you. I just hope they make it fair for everybody. The golf course is in great shape right now. The setup is perfect. If they just left it like this -- I hope they're listening -- it would be fine.

I don't golf, so I try to get into as many ballgames in a week as I can. I pitch, but I have to play every other position when I sub. I love playing all the positions.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

Adam brings the whole package. He's a class act on the golf course along with his game. (His game is) definitely one of the tops in the state and probably on the West Coast.

It takes a special person to want to be a golf ball diver. That person has to love treasure hunting and be extremely testosterone-laden.

Golf has been my savior, there's no doubt about that.

Golf course design is exciting.

I don't know that much about the club, the membership, nor do I care, quite frankly, because I don't play golf.

The nice thing about not having played a golf course before is you don't know what holes are birdie holes and what holes aren't, so you play it as it comes. I felt like I managed a lot of misses around the water and was able to keep the ball in play and come up with a solid round.

When Bandon Dunes opened in 1999, it took the golf world by storm, but when Pacific Dunes opened in 2001, it wrested the attention from Bandon,

Which always helps in golf.

We played three days, four rounds of golf, and we are dead even. We've got two teams that are so even, it's unbelievable. What's going to happen tomorrow Who knows

We've got to get the golf course exposed to the players. We're going to do that this year.

It's almost cheaper than golf. I look at how much it costs to go bowling a few games, even going to the movies nowadays - 9.50 to go to a movie for an hour and a half - and then you buy the popcorn and everything else. We are right up there in the ballpark with everything else.

I like his swing better than Tiger Woods, it's more compact. Eighteen is a very tender age in golf, but he looks to have the goods.

They have over 1,000 trees down on the golf course. They had disease in some of the greens, and they were going to re-sod four greens, which is obviously delayed now.

The perception of high school golf a number of years back was not the highest, that it wasn't that hard a sport. That has all changed as the game has grown - especially among young people. There is a lot more respect for the players and the sport. People now are aware of how difficult it is to be good at golf.

The Stones thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

The first map is topographic data. The green is the golf course. In addition, we identified the water resources that were available to the team at the onset of the project.

I always spend a lot of time with my family, ... The difference is I used to be gone for a week playing golf. Now I'm gone for a few days on course work.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

Our Boston customers continue to ask for additional destinations that are attractive for summer travel and both Quebec City and Charleston are frequently on the top of their list. From the gourmet restaurants and Montmorency River in Quebec City to the golf excursions and quaint inns of Charleston, the options for a family getaway are endless.

I'm here because golf is my sport and I like to compete, ... Just by being here I'm already beginning to win.

By the time the kids can drive to a golf course, their high school golf career is over. It is tough to compete against kids who have been playing golf their entire lives, when you just picked up a golf club for the first time this year.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

I am very active, ... I like to ride horses. I golf. I perform onstage. I am a madman onstage.

They don't want to talk much about their careers probably, and I don't want to talk a whole bunch about golf. We just kind of meet in the middle somewhere.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

Thanks in part to the success of high profile professionals who are helping to reshape the image of golf in a positive and hip way, the appeal of golf to younger generations, women, and more diverse ethnic groups is starting to evolve.

It just reminds me that the ones doing the work aren't the ones playing tournament golf. They've taken a lot of the character out of it.

Actually, today was probably the worst I hit the ball off the tee for sure. I missed a lot of fairways on the front nine, but I tried to give myself chances and I tried to stay patient out there. I feel good with a seven-shot lead, that is nice, but there is a lot of golf to be played.

I don't care what tour you play. PGA, LPGA or Champions -- it does help to come back to a place where you have had success. You have good vibes about the golf course.

In the golf industry, there is a hesitation to tell the truth.

It's exciting for the kids to continue the tradition. Getting both teams back to state is exciting. We weren't as mentally sharp as we could have been Monday knowing going in that it was going to be us against us (third-place Pine Tree finished 53 shots behind the Gold squad). Today, the kids really came out and played awesome golf.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

I look forward to (coaching). I enjoy working with kids, coaching, helping people play golf.

There are a lot of guys out here on tour that are going through personal problems. It's almost a reprieve to have those four or five hours to yourself to go play golf, knowing that you have to redirect your thoughts to playing each shot. It affects you more off the course.

When I finally won a golf tournament, it was relief, it wasn't excitement, ... If I were to win (today), it would be a much more exciting win than the one at Disney World.

Hey, Dennis, this is Mike Kick me, please I'll settle for the price of a set of golf clubs.

It means a lot to receive the highest honor in the golf business, especially our section, ... I want to thank the members of the Emerald Bay community for the opportunity to serve the PGA. It is a commitment from the Country Club. They allow me to take time away from the club and I appreciate them.

Golf is on a decline nationwide. The same people are going out and playing three or four times a week. No one new is taking over and the courses are really suffering.

You have to go out there and make birdies. Phil is playing extremely good golf. I feel like I'm playing decent as well. Today I had a great round.

It's a great test. I think to have different winners like that shows you how good the golf course is.