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Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it. — Bobby Jones

His one passion was for the game of golf, which Roosevelt found excruciatingly dull and slow. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here. — Tom Watson

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality. — Payne Stewart

I haven't slept properly for 12 years because of this bloody game. I don't think you do in a competitive game. You toss and turn and you don't sleep. — Colin Montgomerie

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. — Lee Trevino

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

The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game. — Phil Mickelson

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination. — Sam Snead

Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses — Kathy Whitworth

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man. — Westbrook Pegler

It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is. — P.G. Wodehouse

I don't support the belly putter. I think it's bad for the game of golf. — Padraig Harrington

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. — Stephen Leacock

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special. — Tiger Woods

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach. — Betsy Rawls

Her favorite game was golf because its essential principles consisted of a stick, a small ball, and a state of mind. — Harper Lee

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf. — Arnold Palmer

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. — Ernest Hemingway,

If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry on the true spirit of the game. — Ben Crenshaw

For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind. — Harry Vardon

The Internet is a game changer. I'm hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge. — Hollis Stacy

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette. — Grantland Rice

You can't go into a shop and buy a good game of golf. — Sam Snead

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play. — George H. W. Bush

Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking. — Tom Watson

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard. — Paula Creamer

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

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules. — Alistair Cooke

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. — Hayley Mills

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. — Alice Cooper

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

I'll tell you what, I've been in some seriously bad places playing golf and it's just part of the game. — Tiger Woods

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul. — Bobby Jones

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf. — Alan Shearer

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. — Samuel Johnson

My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake. — Ben Crenshaw

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice. — Patty Berg

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have. — Tom Watson

As the great golfer Ben Hogan once said, "Golf is a game of luck. And the harder I work, the luckier I get. — Kenneth Bock

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game. — Paula Creamer

Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears. — Arnold Palmer

Golf's a great game, and you meet a lot of people along the way. — Matt Kuchar

My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time. — Bruce Lansky

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences. — Bobby Jones

I just think the game of golf teaches you so much about yourself like who you really are and what you're made of. — Stewart Cink

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes. — Gene Littler

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens. — Bob Hope

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club. — Matt Kuchar

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots. — Ben Hogan

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals. — Art Spander

Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game. — Harry Sinden

That was a great game of golf, fellers. — Bing Crosby

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire. — Lee Trevino

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. — Rick Reilly

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose. — Gerald R. Ford

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them. — Joey Lauren Adams

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows. — Gary Player

You know, why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game. — Bernhard Langer

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship. — Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating ... yet so joyous. — Ken Green

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf. — Arnold Palmer

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. — Robert Hass

Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle. — Arnold Haultain

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. — Bobby Jones

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for the contest. — Tony Lema

This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win. — Ben Hogan

The game of golf was bigger than Jack Nicklaus when Jack was dominating the game. — Tim Finchem

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think. — Tom Robbins

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then. — Pat Morita

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

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules. — Jack Nicklaus

Golf is just a game - and an idiotic game most of the time. — Mark Calcavecchia

One of the worst mistakes you can make in golf is trying to force the game. — Jack Nicklaus

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. — Abba Eban

Golf is a game of precision, not strength. — Jack Nicklaus