A golf ball is like a clock

Golf Quotes

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez


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


You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. ~Grantland Rice


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


The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did. ~Robert Browning, A History of Golf


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, "Master Strokes," Sports Illustrated


Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher. ~Jim Murray


Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors. ~Paul O'Neil


Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. ~Alistair Cooke


No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul. ~Bruce McCall, "The Case Against Golf," Esquire

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Golf is a good walk spoiled

Golf Quotes

Golf is a good walk spoiled. ~Mark Twain

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's. ~Grantland Rice

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ~Gardner Dickinson


Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. ~Author Unknown

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ~Phyllis Diller


Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. ~P.J. O'Rourke

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

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


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


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