Quotes About Golf Course

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”

— Hank Aaron

“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

“Mrs. Heath wanted to sprinkle their minds with grass seed and watch the blades spike up through the earth, flat and predictable as a golf course. She wanted dependable students, well fed but not necessarily nourished. But he was not in that category. Admittedly, he could not count on his perceptions of letters and words, and he was not always accurate. He misused words most when he liked their sound. A sentence had a kind of music, and the word sounded right. The definitions were never as interesting as the sound they made coming out of your mouth. He rolled their flavors around on his tongue, tasting every nook and cranny, but he could not be trusted to deliver the right answer and she would never give him better than a C, no matter what genius work he produced. The way he saw it, his mind was a big unruly field of wildflowers. One day he would shower the world with blossoms.”

— Elizabeth Brundage

“Come on, Ted. I'm not exactly the type to be a rich man's bimbo."
"That's true." A world of compassion softened his voice. "Bimbos are generally good-hearted women who are pleasant to be around."
"Spoken from experience, I'm sure. By the way, you may be God Almighty on the golf course, but you're a lousy dancer. Let me lead.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course ... Real estate values go 'boom!'”

— Adam Carolla

“Already many of the memories of the previous two weeks had faded: the smell of that small hotel in St. Andrews; that mixture of bacon cooking for breakfast and the lavender-scented soap in the bathroom; the air from the sea drifing across the golf course; the aroma of coffee in the coffee bar in South Street. She should have noted them down. She should have said something about all that and the light and the hills with sheep on them like small white stones.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.”

— Ray Romano

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

— Fuzzy Zoeller

“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

“Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.”

— Richie Furay

“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

“If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.”

— Lucas Black

“I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.”

— Inbee Park

“When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.”

— Inbee Park

“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 to practice. Sometimes they'd come from the beach at dark to pick me up at the course.”

— Mike Weir

“A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.”

— Jack Nicklaus

“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

“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

“How many of these houses do you own?"
"We own, and all of them."
"Do we own anything else?"
"We also own the woods directly behind us."
Those woods extended for quite a while. There used to be a huge golf course and a shopping center behind us, but trees and brush had swallowed it long ago. "How many acres?"
"Five hundred and twelve."
I opened my mouth and nothing came out.
"I thought of calling it the Five Hundred Acre Wood," Curran said.”

— Ilona Andrews

“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

“PGA of America has been very good to me; played some of the Junior Ryder Cups, and those go down as some of the best experiences I've had on a golf course.”

— Jordan Spieth

“On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.”

— Dweezil Zappa

“I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.”

— Yani Tseng

“I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.”

— Zach Johnson

“I like to look good on the golf course.”

— Zach Johnson

“THE NEXT DAY Reef, Cyprian, and Ratty were out on the Anarchists' golf course, during a round of Anarchists' Golf, a craze currently sweeping the civilized world, in which there was no fixed sequence-in fact, no fixed number-of holes, with distances flexible as well, some holes being only putter-distance apart, others uncounted hundreds of yards and requiring a map and compass to locate. Many players had been known to come there at night and dig new ones. Parties were likely to ask, "Do you mind if we don't play through?" then just go and whack balls at any time and in any direction they liked. Folks were constantly being beaned by approach shots barreling in from unexpected quarters. "This is kind of fun," Reef said, as an ancient brambled guttie went whizzing by, centimeters from his ear.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.”

— Arnold Palmer

“You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.”

— Arnold Palmer

“I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.”

— Jane Seymour

“I've always - I grew up on the old-style traditional type of golf course, tree lined and all small greens, big undulations. And Oakmont just fit my eye.”

— Paula Creamer

“When you're on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you're with and who you're playing with, people want each other to do well.”

— Condoleezza Rice

“Golf has been such a gift in my life, and I've enjoyed it so much and enjoyed lots of wonderful times on the golf course with my husband first, and then I got to play in all these celebrity tournaments. I'm often the only female celebrity in the tournament, hence the term 'Token Chick.' So it's been such a great, great gift in my life.”

— Cheryl Ladd

“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

“I had one job that was kind of cop-like. One summer I did security at a miniature golf course. Just standing out in the sun all day, Hey, hey, excuse me sir. Get your putter out of the whale's ass. Come on, this is a place of miniature business. This is not a playground even though it looks like a playground.”

— Dane Cook

“I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.”

— Annika Sorenstam

“Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.”

— Sam Snead

“A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.”

— Ben Crenshaw

“I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.”

— Betty Ford

“Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.”

— Hal Boyle

“When I heard the draw I was out on the golf course. I had an eight-iron in one hand and my mobile in the other. When we came out with United, my club went further than the ball.”

— Harry Redknapp

“A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.”

— Osbert Sitwell

“Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?”

— Phil Silvers

“A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to ... no matter how many times you have been there before.”

— Lee Westwood

“Donald Trump happened to be in Scotland on the very day, the morning after the Brexit vote. He's there to open his golf course in Turnberry, and, lo and behold, the first thing he talked about was not the Brexit vote.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“The media says, "How in the world can you do this? You're here, you're in Great Britain, you're in the UK, and they just had the Brexit vote, and you're talking about your golf course?" Trump says, "Yeah, and you know what? The falling pound is even gonna help my business here."”

— Rush Limbaugh

“I was the first son and first child. When my sister came along, well, she was two years younger, and I had to go to the golf course because my mother couldn't handle all the action going on. So I came with father to the golf course since I was a year and a half old and I spent the day with him here, and it worked in naturally. And it was fun for me being with my father, and doing things that a kid did it was great.”

— Arnold Palmer

“Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.”

— Billy Graham

“No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here.”

— Tiger Woods

“Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.”

— Tim Allen

“I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.”

— Gary Player