100 Great Golf Quotes All Keen Golfers Need To Read

Why Great Golf Quotes?

Reading about golf quotes can provide inspiration, motivation, and a sense of connection to the sport and its history. They can also offer valuable insights and perspectives on the game and its mental and emotional aspects.

Additionally, reading golf quotes can be a fun and entertaining way to learn more about the sport and the individuals who have shaped it. Great golf quotes can inspire and motivate golfers to improve their game and achieve their goals.

They can also provide a sense of perspective and humor in the often-frustrating game of golf. However, this article aims to bring some inspirational golf quotes for beginners and professionals that can help you give the best golf shot.

What Should Parents know?

• Golf is a sport that people of all ages and skill levels can enjoy. It is an excellent way for parents and children to spend quality time together on the course.
• Golf can teach children valuable life skills such as patience, focus, and sportsmanship. Golf can also help children to develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
• Golf can be a challenging sport but can also be enjoyed for a lifetime. With practice and dedication, children can improve their skills and gain confidence in their abilities.

What to Discuss With Kids?

• Golf originated in Scotland in the 15th century. The oldest golf course in the world is the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland.
• The first recorded game of golf was played in 1457. The term "golf" comes from the Dutch word "kolf," which means "club."
• Golf balls used to be made of feathers and leather, but now they are made of rubber and plastic. The lowest score possible in one round of golf is called a "hole-in-one."
• Golfers use different clubs to hit the ball depending on the distance they need to hit it. Golf is an Olympic sport and has been included in the games four times.‍

Quotes About Golf

1. "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.

2. "The value of routine; trusting your swing." - Lorii Myers

3. "The most important shot in golf is the next one." - Ben Hogan

4. "This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war." - Jack Nicklaus

5. "If you focus only on the target you'll play darn good golf." - Dr. Bob Rotella

6. "To some golfers, the greatest handicap is the ability to add correctly." - Unknown*

7. "The first thing golf teaches is humility, the second; empathy, and the third patience." - Kirs E Wilson

8. "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

9. "If you're caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a iron. Not even God can hit a iron." - Lee Trevino

10. "Golf is a game in which you yell fore, shoot six, and write down five." - Paul Harvey

11. "Golf is 90 percent inspiration and 10 percent perspiration." - Johnny Miller

Funny Golf Quotes

12. "I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I'm really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it." - Ewan McGregor

13. "Pressure is when you play $5 a hole with only $2 in your pocket." - Lee Trevino

14. "I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators." - Gerald R Ford

15. "The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie." - George Deukmejian

16. "I have a tip that can take off five strokes of anyone's golf game. It's called an Eraser" - Arnold Palmer

17. "If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

18. "The older you get, the stronger the wind gets; and it's always in your face." - Jack Nicklaus

19. "To find a man's  true character, play golf with him." - P.G Wodehouse

20. "Swing hard in case you hit it." - Dan Marino

21. "They call it golf because all the other four- letter words were taken." - Raymond Floyd

22. "The better you putt, the bolder you play." - Don January

23. "I am not feeling really well, I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course." - Groucho Marx

24. "Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six- inch course between the ears." - Louise Suggs

25. "Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting." - Peter Dobereiner

Best Golf Quotes

26. "Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger." - Arnold Palmer

27. "Forget your opponents. Always play against par." - Sam Snead

28. "Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe." - Jack Nicklaus

29. "I smile at obstacles." - Tiger Woods

30. "Competitive golf is mainly played in a five and a half- inch course...the space between your ears" - Bobby Jones

31. "Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference." - Tom Watson

32. "If it goes right, it's a slice. If it goes left, it's a hook. If it goes straight, it's a miracle." - Unknown*

Inspirational Golf Quotes

33. "Life is better when you're golfing." - Arnold Palmer

34. "The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two." - Bobby Jones

35. "Golf is not a game, it's bondage. It was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins." - Jim Murray

36. "Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness." - William Wordsworth

37. "Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime, in which you can exhaust yourself but never your subject." - David Forgan

38. "There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection." - Ben Hogan

39. "Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain." - Celine Dion.

40. "I never learned anything from a match that I won" - Bobby Jones

41. "He that can have patience can have what he will." - Benjamin Franklin

Best Golf Quotes of All Time

42. "A kid grows up a lot faster on golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave." - Jack Nicklaus

43. "This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money." - Robert Kiyosaki

44. "Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration." - Michael Greenberg

45. "Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management." - Ben Hogan

46. "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

47. "Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots." - Dr. Bob Rotella

48. "Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter." - Tiger Woods

49. "If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death." - Sam Snead

50. "The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course." - Billy Graham

51. "Golf always makes me so damned angry." - King George V

52. "Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses." - Adlai Stevenson

53. "The swing is never learned. It's remembered." - Bagger Vance

54. "Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple." - Cheryl Ladd

55. "Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill- adapted to the purpose." - Woodrow Wilson

'How To Finish Strong In Golf' Quotes

56. "We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance." - Bruce Lansky

57. "Never concede the putt that beats you." - Harry Vardon

58. "Hit the shot you think you can hit. Not the one you think you should." - Dr. Bob Rotella

59. "Your next shot is a new experience. It might be the best shot you ever hit in your life." - Harvey Penick

60. "Keep a close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt." - Sam Snead

61. "Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious." - P.G Wodehouse

62. "Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots." - Ben Hogan

63. "A lot of people are afraid of winning. I was afraid I might not win." - Arnold Palmer

64. "Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything." - Jack Nicklaus

65. "Golf is an easy game... It's just hard to play." - Unknown*

66. "I didn't hit one ball like that on the range." - Tiger Woods to Steve Williams at the 2004 PGA

67. "I love to play to win." - Tiger Woods

68. "A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks." - Gary Player

69. "It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course." - Hank Aaron

70. "The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things." - John Updike

71. "Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?" - Bob Hope

72. "You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about." - Bobby Jones

73. "What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brainpower and emotional equilibrium." - Arnold Palmer

74. "Every shot counts. The three-foot putt is as important as the 300-yard drive." - Henry Cotton

75. "Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements, it invites the attention of perfectionists." - Heywood Hale Broun

76. "Golfers who try to make everything perfect before taking the shot rarely make a perfect shot." - Unknown*

77. "A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood." - Unknown*

78. "A golfer's diet: live on greens as much as possible." - Unknown*

79. "Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty." - Harry Vardon

80. "Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun." - Chi Chi Rodriguez

81. "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

82. "Golf is a game where the ball always lies poorly and the player always lies well." - Unknown*

83. "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

84. "Golf is a good walk spoiled" - Mark Twain

85. "Golf is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented." - Arnold Palmer

86. "Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect." - Arnold Palmer

87. "Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad." - A A Milne

88. "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

89. "Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off." - Chi Chi Rodriguez

90. "Golf tips are like Aspirin: One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle, you'll be lucky to survive."- Harvey Penick

91. "I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for, getting paid for doing what you love." - Tiger Woods

92. "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

93. "It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented." - Arnold Palmer

94. "It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." - Hank Aaron

95. "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

96. "Many a golfer prefers a golf cart to a caddy because the cart cannot count, criticize or laugh." - Unknown*

97. "Of all the hazards, fear is the worst." - Sam Snead

98. "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

99. "The more I practice the luckier I get." - Gary Player

100. "Trust is one of the most important qualities in the game of golf. With trust, it feels like you and your golf club are partners dancing as one. Without trust, it feels like you and your golf club are on opposite sides of a tug-of-war." - Dr. Joseph Parent

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