Golf Quotes

In this blog, we have covered the most Catchy Golf Quotes, Best Golf Quotes, Funny Golf Quotes, Good Golf Quotes, Inspirational Golf Quotes, Golf Quotes For Boys, Golf Quotes For Girls, Motivational Golf Quotes, Short Golf Quotes, Famous Golf Quotes and Golf Quotes for Instagram.

 

Catchy Golf Quotes

• “I always think under par. You have to believe in yourself.” -Sergio Garcia
• “A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.” -Mac O’Grady
• “There’s going to be places where you can attack the golf course and there’s going to be times where you’ve got to kind of bite your lip and play conservative and hit to certain spots on the green, get out of there with a par and move on.” -Jim Furyk, on the discipline required to play Augusta National
• “Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.” -Heywood Hale Broun
• “I’ve heard people say my swing’s not perfect, and I know that. But golf’s a natural sport, very sensitive. It’s played a lot by feel. I don’t care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don’t have to change it.” -Sergio Garcia
• “Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.” -Arnold Palmer
• “It’s about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.” -Bubba Watson
• “Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.” -Jack Nicklaus
• “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
• “Forget your opponents; always play against par.” -Sam Snead
• “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” -Arnold Palmer
• “Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent’s.” -Grantland Rice

 

Best Golf Quotes

• “The proper score for a businessman golfer is 90. If he is better than that he is neglecting his business. If he’s worse, he’s neglecting his golf.” -St Andrews Rotary Club Member
• “Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.” -Tom Kite
• “A routine is not a routine if you have to think about it.” -Davis Love Jr.
• “He that can have patience can have what he will.” -Benjamin Franklin
• “I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.” -Ben Hogan
• “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” -Arnold Palmer
• “Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.” -Bubba Watson
• “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
• “I think it’s more than whether or not you win or lose. It’s having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.” -Phil Mickelson
• “Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears.” -Bobby Jones
• “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
• “Keep your sense of humor. There’s enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you’re supposed to enjoy.” -Amy Alcott

 

Funny Golf Quotes

• “The only sure rule in golf is he who has the fastest golf cart never has to play the bad lie.” — Mickey Mantle, owner of one of the sweetest swings in baseball, not so much in golf.
• “A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.” — We’ll have whatever Mac O’Grady is smoking.
• “Golf is a game in which you yell fore, shoot six, and write down five.” — Paul Harvey calling every golfer out.
• “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.” — again, Lee Trevino, who would know a thing or two about lightning strikes considering he was stuck by it on the course.
• “The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.” — George Deukmejian waxing prophetic.
• “It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.” — Mark Twain, the famous wordsmith who also said golf is a good walk spoiled.
• “If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” — Jack Lemmon, a true comedian on and off the course.
• “The most important shot in golf is the next one.” — Ben Hogan making a joke, we think, it was hard to tell with him.
• “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 making us think more than we’d like to.
• “If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.” — Dean Martin, need we say more?

 

Good Golf Quotes

• “Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime, in which you can exhaust yourself but never your subject.” -David Forgan
• “A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks.” -Gary Player
• “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing!” -Anonymous
• “As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” -Ben Hogan
• “Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.” -Tiger Woods
• “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
• “For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.” -Harry Vardon
• “I have to believe in myself. I know what I can do, what I can achieve.” -Sergio Garcia
• “One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.” -Bobby Jones
• “If you worry about making bogeys, it makes the game that much more difficult. You put more pressure on yourself without even noticing it. It makes a difference to take it easy when things aren’t going right.” -Sergio Garcia
• “Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.” -P.G. Wodehouse

 

Inspirational Golf Quotes

• “Some guys get on the road; the first thing they do is look for the nearest golf course. I look for a gym.” – Shannon Sharpe
• “The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.” – Bobby Jones
• “If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.” – Sam Snead
• “Play the ball as it lies, play the course as you find it, and if you cannot do either… Do what is fair.” – Anonymous
• “Don’t say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.” – Moe Norman
• “I’m a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn’t help me.” – Lee Trevino
• “You won’t learn a thing hanging out with drunks, dope addicts, and other asses. You got to be around winners. Some people never figure that out. I knew it by the time I was 12.” – Doug Sanders
• “They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken” – Jimmy Powell
• “If everything was given to you, it wouldn’t feel as good when you achieve it.” – Annika Sorenstam
• “Golf is my boyfriend right now.” – Karrie Webb
• “When I play my best golf, I feel as if I’m in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands.” – Mickey Wright
• “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
• “Housework is for women who do not play golf.” – Anonymous
• “Practice puts brains in your muscles.” – Sam Snead

 

Golf Quotes For Boys

• “The more they made noise, the more calm I became.” – Vijay Singh
• “No matter how good you get, you can always get better.” – Tiger Woods
• “The real way to play golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.” – Bobby Jones
• “For this game, you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.” – Harry Vardon
• “I always think under par. You have to believe in yourself.” – Sergio Garcia
• “Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation” – Jack Nicklaus
• “The most important shot in golf is the next one.” – Ben Hogan
• “The more I practice, the luckier I get.” – Various Sources
• “Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.” – Sam Snead
• “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
• “Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.” – Arnold Palmer
• “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
• “Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.” – Arnold Haultain

 

Golf Quotes For Girls

• “Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.” – Ben Hogan
• “I play golf with friends sometimes. But there are never friendly games.” – Ben Hogan
• “If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” – Jack Lemmon
• “Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round.” – Walter Hagen
• “Golf is the loneliest sport. You’re completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself.” – Hale Irwin
• “There’s no game like golf. You go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies.” – Anonymous
• “The Open Championship is golf’s greatest stage, where the drama unfolds on nature’s terms.” – Seve Ballesteros
• “I just love hanging out with good company on a great, fun golf course.” – Rich Eisen
• “I have found the game to be, in all factual-ness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.” – Ben Hogan
• “How straight it flew, how long it flew.” – John Betjeman

 

Motivational Golf Quotes

• “Golf is the infallible test… is the man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.” – P.G. Wodehouse
• “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. It is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” – Arnold Palmer
• “Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.” – Jack Nicklaus
• “If you’re 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
• “If your adversary is badly bunkered, there is no rule against your standing over him counting his strokes aloud, with increasing gusto as their number mounts up, but it will be a wise precaution to arm yourself with the niblick before doing so, so as to meet him on equal terms.” – Horace Hutchinson
• “Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I’ve played the game for 50 years, and I still haven’t the slightest idea of how to play.” – Gary Player
• “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.” – Bobby Jones
• “People don’t understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented… The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that’s been what has gotten me this far.” – Tiger Woods
• “Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whatever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock.” – P.G. Wodehouse

 

Short Golf Quotes

• Give me golf clubs, fresh air, and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. – Jack Benny
• Golf is such an exciting game. Whack the ball, get in the cart. Whack the ball, get in the cart. – Robin Williams
• That putt had more breaks than a government job. – Brian Weis
• The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf. It’s almost a law. – H.G. Wells
• I don’t always one putt, but when I do it’s usually for double bogey. – Unknown
• Golf is a game in which you yell “fore”… shoot six… and write down five. – Paul Harvey
• There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. – Anonymous
• The only sure rule in golf is he who has the fastest cart never has to play the bad lie. – Mickey Mantle
• The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. – Billy Graham
• I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. – Gerald Ford
• I don’t care to join any club that’s prepared to have me as a member. – Groucho Marx
• Golf’s three ugliest words: still your shot. – David Marr
• To find a man’s true character, play golf with him. – P.G. Wodehouse
• While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake. – Henny Youngman
• If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. – Jack Lemmon
• If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play at it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf. – Bob Hope
• Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture. – Winston Churchill

 

Famous Golf Quotes

• “A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration.” – Bobby Jones
• “Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.” – A.A. Milne
• “These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.” – Sam Snead
•  “How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorstep to take up golf.” – Dr. Alister Mackenzie
•  “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 husband’s work.” – Lee Trevino
•  “The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.” – Dr. Alister MacKenzie
•  “Golf is a game whose aim is to get a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.” – Sir Winston Churchill
•  “If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.” – Horace Hutchinson
• “The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.” -Arnold Palmer
• “Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world’s greatest golfers. However, it’s even more important to the average player. Attack this game in a bold, confident, and determined way, and you’ll make a giant leap toward realizing your full potential as a player.” -Greg Norman
• “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” -Napoleon Hill

 

Golf Quotes for Instagram

• “Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.” – Jim Bishop
• “As you walk down the fairway of life, you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” – Ben Hogan
• “Achievements on the golf course are not what matters. Decency and honesty are what matters.” – Tiger Woods
• “I am not feeling really well. I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.” – Groucho Marx
• “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” – Arnold Palmer
• “When a man retires, his wife gets twice as much husband for half as much money.” – Chi Chi Rodriguez
• “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
• “Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.” – Art Spander
• “The older you get, the stronger the wind gets; and it’s always in your face.” – Jack Nicklaus
• “I’m not retired. Golf is hard work!” – Anonymous