Mainprize Golf Quotes

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. ~ Lee Trevino

Green synthetic practice mats are the worst thing for your golf game that I know of. You can hit six inches behind the ball and not even know it, because the ball still gets airborne. Practice nets are awful, too. Swing a weighted club instead. ~ Lee Trevino

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration. ~ Mike Greenberg

I miss it, I miss it, I miss it, I make it. ~ Seve Ballesteros

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks. ~ Jack Nicklaus

On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy. ~ Bobby Jones

What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees. ~ John Updike

I hit a one-yard draw in there ~ Tiger Woods

I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top. ~ Ben Hogan

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right. ~ Ben Crenshaw

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature. ~ John Updike

Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man. ~ Jack Nicklaus

I was so dedicated to generating income to keep my family housed and clothed and schooled. That mattered to me. And playing good golf mattered to me. The rest of the things, like how my record stacked up against others, never made that much difference. ~ Billy Casper

I couldn't tell you exactly what I like about golf. Just when you think you've got it mastered it lets you know you haven't. I'm just crazy enough to do it. ~ Clint Eastwood

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life. ~ Jack Nicklaus

You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil! ~ Rex Pickett

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course. ~ Jeremy London

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap. ~ Ken Buck

In the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good. ~ Seve Ballesteros

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea ... ~ Anne Sexton

Golf course design is exciting. ~ Tom Kite

Hit it hard. It will land somewhere. ~ Mark Calcavecchia

Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again. ~ Roberto De Vicenzo

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands. ~ Amy Alcott

I've had a lot of majors where I didn't play well until the last round. Keep yourself in contention; that's the name of the game. I usually ended up shooting a good round and all of a sudden, somehow, I won. ~ Jack Nicklaus

It's great to be somewhat of a role model. I want to be a positive and good role model and lead by example and try to do the best I can. Playing good golf definitely draws attention, but I want to have a good attitude on the course and do the right things. ~ Rickie Fowler

It's just golf. As long as I get done without breakin' somethin' or hurtin' somebody, that's my goal. ~ Boo Weekley

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ~ Arnold Palmer

I started playing golf at about four years old. ~ Guan Tianlang

All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts. ~ Hubert Green

There is so much I want to do in women's golf, and I'm living my dream. ~ Paula Creamer

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

Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun. ~ Richie Furay

Miniature golf, like billiards, is a game of angles. And, like billiards, most of the fun is in pretending you know what the hell you're doing. The worse you do, the more you have to laugh. ~ Victor LaValle

After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four. ~ Simon Hobday

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club. ~ Jack Nicklaus

It is impossible to outplay an opponent you can't outthink. ~ Lawson Little

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. ~ Shia Labeouf

Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf.
Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene?
Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies. ~ Scott Adams

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else. ~ Nancy Lopez

Through the ball we are all the same. We just have different ways of getting it there. ~ Charles Coody

My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know. ~ Stewart Cink

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead. ~ Tommy Bolt

My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation. ~ Larry Mize

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun. ~ Tiger Woods