I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.
I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.
The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.
Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified.
When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.
Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage.
You are going to hit some good shots and not get rewarded, but that's just U.S. Open golf. It's tough; it's hard.
There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards - and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.
It's quite nice to play on a golf course that, even though it is links, that there's not much wind, which is good.
I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.
Sometimes, we should maybe sit back and look at all we have. It's because of golf and the tour. I mean, this life we lead is unbelievable.
I'm the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I'm playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits.
I owe everything to golf. Where else could a guy with an IQ like mine make this much money?
When you look at other sports, like golf, the players earn a lot more money without running around.
Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.
I've been passionate about the game of golf since I first held a club in my hand. I don't ever see that changing.
I believe cricket is a harder game. If at age six you started both sports you'd excel at golf more.
There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard.
I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
I love playing competitive golf because it's really the only thing left that I'm still pretty good at.
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.
Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.
I don't want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I'll be playing golf four or five times a week.
You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.
Golf and fishing. I usually do both at least once a week. The biggest fish I've ever caught was a 36 lb. carp.
So much of my life I've dedicated to golf, aspiring to win my first major championship. To be able to do so aged 24 is awesome.
Being 21, 22 years old... traveling the world and getting to play golf is pretty neat.
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.
All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.
As far as golf being athletic, I would say, go try it, let's see how well you do. It's a hard game.
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.
I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron.
The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.
We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.
I first took up golf in 1994, and used to play intermittently. I couldn't devote as much time to it as I would've liked.
I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else.
Since 1934 every accomplished player in golf has come to the Augusta National looking for an introduction into history.
You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.
Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.
It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.
I like to hunt and fish, read and paint and play golf. And I can have a good time doing nothing. And, of course: be with my family.
You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.
Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.
I have, compartmentalized in my head, one file for the NFL, one for college basketball and one for golf. They contain everything I've ever read, watched and learned.
There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it's all about winning the trophies, really. It's not like golf.
[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.
I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.
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.
As a working-class boy, golf was never really on my radar, and when I was growing up, Irish football was my sporting passion.
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