Golf is a SIMPLE GAME
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| I don"t care to join any club that's prepared to have me as a member | Groucho Marx |
| One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic. | Lee Trevino |
| The truly great things happen when a genius is alone. This is true especially among golfers. | J.R. Coulson |
| I sure was glad I ran out of holes. I looked down at my hands and arms to see if it was me when I finished with the score. | Don January |
| The winds were blowing 50 mph and gusting to 70. I hit a par 3 with my hat. | Chi Chi Rodriguez (on the windy course in Scotland) |
| 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. | Bobby Jones |
| Most golfers prepare for disaster. A good golfer prepares for success. | Bob Toski |
| Hagen said that no one remembers who finished second. But they still ask me if I ever think about that putt I missed to win the 1970 Open at St. Andrews. I tell them that sometimes it doesn't cross my mind for a full five minutes. | Doug Sanders |
| When Jack Nicklaus plays well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third. | Johnny Miller |
| All good players have good hands. And I'm afraid you have to be born with them. | Dave Stockton |
| Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination.... Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised. | Herbert Warren Wind |
| Everyone has his own choking level, a level at which he fails to play his normal golf. As you get more experienced, your choking level rises. | Johnny Miller |
| Golf is neither a microcosm nor a metaphor for life. It is a sport, a bloodless sport, if you don't count ulcers. | Dick Schaap |
| There is no movement in the hole swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice. | Thomas Mulligan |
| You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. | Lee Trevino |
| Do I ever disagree with him on course strategy? NEVER-- unless he's wrong. | Gary Nicklaus (on caddying for his father) |
| Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one. | Martha Beckman |
| The reason the Road Hole is the greatest par 4 in the world is because it's a par 5! | Ben Crenshaw (on the seventeenth hole at St. Andrews) |
| After an abominable round of golf, a man is known to have slit his wrists with a razor blade and, having bandaged them, to have stumbled into the locker room and enquired of his partner, "What time tomorrow? | Alistair Cooke |
| I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer it's time to take stock. | Milton Gross |
| It could be worse; I could be allergic to beer. | Greg Norman (on being allergic to grass) |