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Golf Course Quotes

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
- Hank Aaron

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.
- Amy Alcott

I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever.
- Amy Alcott

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.
- Amy Alcott

The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
- Ted Allen

A golf course can be a very risky place in the early evening for those who aren't aware of the dangers. Who knows when a golf ball might come flying out of nowhere?
- Haruki Murakami

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
- Jello Biafra

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.
- Lewis Black

If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row.
- Lewis Black

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.
- Frank Butler

So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.
- George Carlin

But we do have a golf course near by and I play fairly regularly.
- Perry Como

I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.
- Ben Crenshaw

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
- Mac Davis

Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields.
- Im Donghyun

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.
- Ree Drummond

I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.
- King Edward Viii

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.
- Raymond Floyd

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.
- Raymond Floyd

For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.
- Mark Foley

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
- Jean Giraudoux

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
- Lyndon B Johnson

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
- Billy Graham

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the President on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm.
- Christopher Hitchens

I have a handicap on the golf course like you wouldn't believe. It's more than a limp, and less than a wheelchair.
- Jarod Kintz

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
- Groucho Marx

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.
- Tom Kite

Golf course design is exciting.
- Tom Kite

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?
- Hal Linden

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.
- Jeremy London

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
- John Mccarthy

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.
- Rory Mcilroy

The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
- Ed Mcmahon

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
- Ed Mcmahon

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
- Bill Murray

Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person.
A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the golf course and/or workplace and the people there are important.
- Lorii Myers

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
- Jack Nicholson

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
- Jack Nicklaus

That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.
- Greg Norman

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.
- Paul Pierce

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
- Gary Player

A brick could be used as an obstacle on a mini golf course.
- Amy Riekhof

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.
- Darrell Royal

Me too. Do you want to meet me at the golf course after you get off work tomorrow? Then we can see each other all afternoon."
"That sounds good."
Which it did. But even if she'd said "Do you want to meet me at the surface of the sun?" I'd still have agreed to it.
- Mindi Scott

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.
- Martin Sheen

I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.
- Webb Simpson

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
- Webb Simpson

Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
- Red Skelton

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.
- Sam Snead

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.
- Payne Stewart

I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.
- Hal Sutton

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.
- Lee Trevino

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.
- Lee Trevino

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
- Tom Watson

It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
- Karrie Webb

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.
- Mike Weir

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.
- Mike Weir

In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.
- Lee Westwood

I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good.
- Michelle Wie

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
- Tiger Woods

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
- Tiger Woods

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.
- Fuzzy Zoeller

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