There is nothing quite as relaxing as playing 18 holes on a warm summer day with people you like hanging out with. Usually most people who play golf are pretty decent people because the game is too hard for people with bad attitudes. In fact I have never met someone on the golf course that I didn’t see some redeeming quality in.
Golf is a game that you play against yourself. You keep your own score, so if you cheat then you are just cheating yourself. Most of the game is really played between your ears. If you can focus on the moment usually you do pretty well. Now I know that sounds easy, but it is difficult after you just hit a beautiful drive to not think about the potential birdie or par that is coming. You can almost see yourself putting it down on your scorecard. Then……BAM!! A duff, a shank and a three putt and all of those dreams disappear and you are now putting down a six.
That’s the way that golf goes. It really is a game that can represent many aspects of life. When you start your round, I always have a feeling of endless possibility. This could be the day that I break 80! This could be the best round I ever shoot. I try to feel that way at the beginning of every day and even though I rarely do find that goal that I am seeking. I do usually feel fortunate that I had the opportunity to play.
The only drawback to golf is that is can take up so much time. Four to five hours gets harder and harder to find.
Great quotes involving golf
Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ~Grantland Rice
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ~John Updike
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. ~Robert Lynd
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ~A.A. Milne
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. ~P.G. Wodehouse, A Mixed Threesome, 1922
I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone’s golf game: it’s called an eraser. ~Arnold Palmer
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears. ~Bobby Jones
I’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right. ~Ben Crenshaw
Golf is like a love affair. If you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. ~Arthur Daley
Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can’t play it. ~Ted Ray, Golf – My Slice of Life, 1972
The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes. ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1975
If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. ~Paul Gallico
Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. ~Author Unknown
It’s easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister’s fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ~Bruce McCall
Forget your opponents; always play against par. ~Sam Snead
If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. ~Horace G. Hutchinson
They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ~Gardner Dickinson
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ~Will Rogers
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death. ~Sam Snead
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ~Arnold Palmer
The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing. ~Phyllis Diller
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it’s called the PGA Tour. ~Author uncertain, attributed to Alex Hay
A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. ~Author Unknown, plagiarized from the Samuel Johnson
“It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the priveleges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood,” which wasnot written about golf (Thanks, Frank Lynch)
Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. ~P.J. O’Rourke
The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. ~Author Unknown
If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt. ~Dean Martin
Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent’s. ~Grantland Rice
Golf is a good walk spoiled. ~Mark Twain
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ~G.K. Chesterton
They throw their clubs backwards, and that’s wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don’t have to walk any extra distance to get it. ~Tommy Bolt, about the tempers of modern players
If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. ~Joey Adams
Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one. ~Martha Beckman
When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit. ~Author Unknown
I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced. ~Attributed to both Miller Barber and Lee Trevino
Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks – No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard’s excellent Tennis for Beginners. ~Henry Beard, Golfing, 1985
Golf is life. If you can’t take golf, you can’t take life. ~Author Unknown
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. ~Ken Harrelson
If I can hit a curveball, why can’t I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? ~Larry Nelson
Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom. ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1967
If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head. ~Harry Vardon
A passion, an obsession, a romance, a nice acquaintanceship with trees, sand, and water. ~Bob Ryan
Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren’t penalized for being on grass. ~Bob Hope
I’d play every day if I could. It’s cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart. ~Brent Musburger
