Best Augusta Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Gladiator Leaders: Don't Drink the Laced Drink

“Don't look at me like that, Augusta." He stood to pull his shirt over his head. "I don't deserve it. No mortal could deserve such an expression.”

Ian Augusta Looks Of Love

Book:The Bridegroom Wore Plaid

Source: The Bridegroom Wore Plaid

“The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.”

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Author:Mike Weir

“Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.”

Long Enough Play Bigs Today Issues Length Massive Dominant Augusta

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.”

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Author:Gary Player

“If you let it, the Masters will play you instead of you playing it. Augusta National can pamper you right off the bottom of the leader board. Pampered before and after your round, but mentally and emotionally pulverized during them - that's the formula.”

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Author:Joe Inman

“I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.”

Ifs May Children Sometimes Reading Knowing Deeds Saved Good Deeds Librarian Bakers Rest In Peace Augusta

Author:Audre Lorde

“There are a lot of great players from Europe who have never played Augusta, but all the guys in America have all played St. Andrews. They've gone over and made a trip to play St. Andrews.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.”

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Author:Yani Tseng

“This will be my 54th trip to Augusta. I got $20,000 for winning the Masters. Now I get $10,000 to go there and eat a free steak.”

Winning Masters Steak Augusta

Author:Bob Goalby

“My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.”

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“If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.”

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Author:Tom Watson

“Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I remember what a thrill it was to attend my first Champions Dinner. Just being in the same room with some of the guys I had admired growing up and to be there because I had won The Masters was quite an honor. I still attend the dinner every year and it is one of the highlights of my time at Augusta during Masters week.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.”

Ifs Wells Mean Seems Found Social Opinion Doctors Died Victim Dear Revolutionary Physicians Legislation Aunt Outrage Great Confidence Augusta Morbidity

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.”

Wells Two Facts Feelings Together Dear Two Things Afternoon Aunt Augusta Good Afternoon

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?"”

People Ifs Firsts Asks Names Church Drink Grandmother Maidens Atlanta Your Grandmother Savannah Augusta Maiden Names

Author:John Berendt

“If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.”

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Author:Joe Inman

“There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Golf Holes Augusta

Author:Bobby Jones

“Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.”

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Author:Ian Poulter

“Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.”

Faces Fall Tree Golf Expected Landscape Clock Augusta

Author:David Feherty

“I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way”

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Author:Ben Crenshaw

“Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.”

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Author:Ernie Els

“They don't cut the greens here at Augusta. they use bikini wax.”

Use Cutting Bikinis Augusta

Author:Gary McCord

“John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.”

Said Strong Grew Contact Soil Augusta

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.”

Littles Careers Holes Fortunate Augusta Augusta National

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I'm playing in the Masters. It's obviously very important to me, and I want to be there. I've worked a lot on my game and I'm looking forward to competing. I'm excited to get to Augusta and I appreciate everyone's support.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.”

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Author:Fred Couples

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