Discover the finest collection of 110 best golf quotes that capture the essence of the game. From legendary players to insightful commentators, find inspiration and wisdom in these timeless quotes about golf.
Golf Quotes
‘”The more I practice the luckier I get.” – Gary Player’,
‘”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.” – Peter Jacobsen’
‘”Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.” – Sam Snead’
‘”Many a golfer prefers a golf cart to a caddy because the cart cannot count, criticize or laugh.” – Unknown*’
‘”It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.” – Hank Aaron’
‘”It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” – Arnold Palmer’
‘”I think it is more than whether or not you win or lose. It is having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.” – Phil Mickelson’
‘”Golf tips are like Aspirin: One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle, you willl be lucky to survive.”- Harvey Penick’
‘”Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off.” – Chi Chi Rodriguez’
‘”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 you have to play the ball where it lies.” – Bobby Jones’
‘”Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.” – A A Milne’
‘”Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect.” – Arnold Palmer’
‘”Golf is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” – Arnold Palmer’
‘”Golf is a good walk spoiled” – Mark Twain’
‘”Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.” – Winston Churchill’
‘”Golf is a game where the ball always lies poorly and the player always lies well.” – Unknown*’
‘”Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.” – Bruce Crampton’
‘”Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun.” – Chi Chi Rodriguez’
Golf Sayings
‘”A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.” – Unknown’
‘”Golfers who try to make everything perfect before taking the shot rarely make a perfect shot.” – Unknown’
‘”Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements, it invites the attention of perfectionists.” – Heywood Hale Broun’
‘”Every shot counts. The three-foot putt is as important as the 300-yard drive.” – Henry Cotton’
‘”What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brainpower and emotional equilibrium.” – Arnold Palmer’
‘”You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.” – Bobby Jones’
‘”The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.” – John Updike’
‘”It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.” – Hank Aaron’
‘”A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks.” – Gary Player’,
‘”I love to play to win.” – Tiger Woods’
‘”Golf is an easy game… It is just hard to play.” – Unknown’
‘”Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.” – Jack Nicklaus’
‘”A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win.” – Arnold Palmer’
‘”Golf is not a game of good shots. It is a game of bad shots.” – Ben Hogan’
‘”Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.” – P.G Wodehouse’
‘”Keep a close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.” – Sam Snead’
‘”Your next shot is a new experience. It might be the best shot you ever hit in your life.” – Harvey Penick’
‘”Hit the shot you think you can hit. Not the one you think you should.” – Dr. Bob Rotella’,
‘”Never concede the putt that beats you.” – Harry Vardon’
‘ “We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance.” – Bruce Lansky’
Golf Inspiration Quotes
‘”Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill- adapted to the purpose.” – Woodrow Wilson’
‘”Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.” – Cheryl Ladd’
‘”The swing is never learned. It is remembered.” – Bagger Vance’
‘”Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.” – Adlai Stevenson’,
‘”Golf always makes me so damned angry.” – King George V’
‘”The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.” – Billy Graham’
‘”Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.” – Tiger Woods’
‘”Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.” – Dr. Bob Rotella’
‘”A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.” – Ben Sayers’
‘”Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.” – Ben Hogan’
‘”Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.” – Michael Greenberg’
‘”A kid grows up a lot faster on golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.” – Jack Nicklaus’
‘”He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin’
‘ “I never learned anything from a match that I won” – Bobby Jones’
‘There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.” – Ben Hogan’
‘”Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime, in which you can exhaust yourself but never your subject.” – David Forgan’
‘”Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.” – William Wordsworth’
‘”The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.” – Bobby Jones’
‘”Life is better when you are golfing.” – Arnold Palmer’
‘”Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.” – Tom Watson’
‘”Competitive golf is mainly played in a five and a half- inch course…the space between your ears” – Bobby Jones’
‘”I smile at obstacles.” – Tiger Woods’
Golf Motivational Sayings
‘”Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You have got to believe.” – Jack Nicklaus’
‘”Forget your opponents. Always play against par.” – Sam Snead’
‘”Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.” – Arnold Palmer’
‘”Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.” – Peter Dobereiner’
‘”I am not feeling really well, I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.” – Groucho Marx’
‘”The better you putt, the bolder you play.” – Don January’
‘”They call it golf because all the other four- letter words were taken.” – Raymond Floyd’
‘”Swing hard in case you hit it.” – Dan Marino’
‘”The older you get, the stronger the wind gets; and it is always in your face.” – Jack Nicklaus’
‘”If you drink, don not drive. Don not even putt.” – Dean Martin’
‘”I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.” – Gerald R Ford’
‘”Golf is 90 percent inspiration and 10 percent perspiration.” – Johnny Miller’
‘”Golf is a game in which you yell fore, shoot six, and write down five.” – Paul Harvey’
‘”The first thing golf teaches is humility, the second; empathy, and the third patience.” – Kirs E Wilson’
‘”To some golfers, the greatest handicap is the ability to add correctly.” – Unknown’
‘”If you focus only on the target you will play darn good golf.” – Dr. Bob Rotella’
‘”The most important shot in golf is the next one.” – Ben Hogan’
‘”The value of routine; trusting your swing.” – Lorii Myers’
‘ “Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.” ― Ben Hogan’
‘“Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.” ― Red Skelton
‘“Golf is not a game of great shots. It’s a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.” ― Gene Littler’
‘“The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.” ― Phil Mickelson’
‘“I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.” ― Ben Hogan’
‘“Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.” ― Bobby Jones’
‘“The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.” ― Ben Hogan’
‘“Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few.” — Harvey Penick’
‘“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.” — William Wordsworth’
‘“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.” — Gerald R. Ford’
‘“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.” — Ernest Hemingway’
‘“Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.” — Ben Hogan’
‘“If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.” — Bob Hope’
‘“Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.” — Harry Vardon’
‘“To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.” — P. G. Wodehouse’
‘“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.” – Bobby Jones’
‘“Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.” – Tiger Woods’
‘“Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.” – Tina Weymouth’
Funny Golf Quotes
‘“Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.” – Tiger Woods’
‘“Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.” – Arnold Palmer’
‘“For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.” – Harry Vardon’
‘“The mind messes up more shots than the body.” –Tommy Bolt’
‘“Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.” – Nick Faldo’
‘The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.” – John Updike’
‘ “If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf.” – Percy Boomer’
‘ “Forget your opponents; always play against par.” – Sam Snead’
‘”The most important shot in golf is the next one.” – Ben Hogan’
‘”Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.” – Arnold Palmer’
‘”Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.” – Arnold Palmer’
‘”Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears.” – Bobby Jones’
‘”The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.” – Billy Graham’
‘”Golf is a game where the ball lies poorly, and the players well.” – Anonymous’
‘”Golf is a game where the ball always lies poorly and the player always lies well.” – Unknown’
‘”The most difficult job in golf is to hit a ball that is not there.” – Bobby Jones’,
