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

When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much. — Hollis Stacy

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 have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad. — Ben Hogan

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys. — Tom Watson

I don't follow golf! I don't keep up with golf or know who is coming or going. I am just here to play the game and be done with it. — Boo Weekley

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play. — Gary Player

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

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

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. — Phil Blackmar

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

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve. — Lee Westwood

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

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe. — Bobby Jones

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf. — Gary Player

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

In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet. — Mark Hadlow

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself. — Joe Torre

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master. — John Henry Taylor

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

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose — Winston S. Churchill

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

Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love watching it. My father has played golf all his life. — Bill Paxton

In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart. — Harvey Penick

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

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

I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last. — Rafael Nadal

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

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

My golf game is getting real good. Last week, I got through the windmill. — Rodney Dangerfield

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

Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee. — Jimmy Demaret

Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game. — Gay Brewer

Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. — Stephen Potter

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

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is. — Bernhard Langer

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

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages. — Byron Nelson

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

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

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

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman. — Shaquille O'Neal

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

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

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

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

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals. — Bob Hope

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

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 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

I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game. — J. C. Snead

The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child. — Craig Stadler

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

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

Golf is the one game I know
which becomes more and more
difficult the longer one plays it. — Bobby Jones

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

You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones. — Mac O'Grady

Go out and have fun. Golf is a game for everyone, not just for the talented few. — Harvey Penick

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

The next time I cry about golf it will only be with joy. It's not worth crying over golf for any other reason. After all, it's only a game. — Rory McIlroy

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 so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. — A.A. Milne

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

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

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

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place. — Ben Crenshaw

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

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

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

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

The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer. — Simon Hobday

I never played a round when I didn't learn something new about the game. — Ben Hogan

Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about. — Paula Creamer

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

Once you try, golf is the hardest game you'll ever play. — Roger Maltbie

The game was easy for me as a kid. I had to play a while to find out how hard it is. — Ray Floyd

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

No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are God, next time you are the devil. But it does keep you coming back. — Juli Inkster

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. — Woodrow Wilson

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

Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it. — Willie Geist

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

The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful. — William J. Clinton

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

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

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

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game. — Ben Hogan

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand. — 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

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

I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life. — Louis Oosthuizen

I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America. — Condoleezza Rice