Best Golf Course Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“An expanse of short green grass undulated around sand traps and manicured trees. Up ahead, a multi-winged clubhouse loomed. “Jesus God,” I muttered. “Ninth circle of hell.” “I think they have eighteen at courses like this,” Andy said. “Ha.”

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Book:All the Better Part of Me

Source: All the Better Part of Me

“Pool tables should have contours, like golf courses. For a novice billiards player, I have a pretty good swing.”

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Book:There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“Golf Courses don't grow on Trees . . . Trees grow on Golf Courses”

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Author:Kevin Kolenda

“I love how golf courses have water hazards. But the ponds feel empty without ducks. I'd like to start a business renting my ducks out to country clubs.”

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Book:To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

Source: To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“Your golf course is my duck farm. I am The John Daly of raising avians.”

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Book:Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“Hidden Valley is a golf course in Springfield. Hidden Valley is also the name of a brand of ranch dressing, and that’s more suited to my game.”

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Book:To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

Source: To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.”

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Author:Terry O'Quinn

“In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.”

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Author:Lee Westwood

“I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.”

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Author:Mike Weir

“I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.”

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Author:Mike Weir

“On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.”

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Author:Dweezil Zappa

“They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.”

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Author:Fuzzy Zoeller

“A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“Mitt Romney looks like a guy modeling briefs on a package of underwear ... He looks like a guy who goes to the restroom when the check comes ... He looks like a guy who would run a seminar on condo flipping ... He looks like he is the closer at a Cadillac dealership.... He looks like that guy on the golf course in the Levitra commercial.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“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

“The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think of the damage they would do if they were at the job instead, you can see why golf courses are a wise investment for any municipality.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

“From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.”

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Author:Arnold Palmer

“Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.”

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Author:Louis Nizer

“The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.”

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Author:Carson Palmer

“The meeting with Prince William took place at the White House because Prince William wanted to see where the president spent his days, but the golf course was covered in snow.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it's also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.”

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Author:Gene Sarazen

“I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.”

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Author:Lee Westwood

“If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there just to brighten it up. I feel the same way about old golf courses. When you have a masterpiece, I sure wouldn't tinker with it.”

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Author:Ray Floyd

“It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.”

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Author:Phil Mickelson

“Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.”

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Author:Johnny Miller

“I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf.”

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Author:Tom Doak

“I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.”

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Author:Ben Hogan

“It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.”

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Author:Ben Crenshaw

“I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination.”

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Author:Tony Lema

“I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.”

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Author:Gary Player

“I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.”

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Author:Darrell Royal

“I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.”

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Author:Hal Sutton

“It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.”

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Author:Tom Kite

“I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.”

“Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.”

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Author:Sam Snead

“If you ever feel sorry for somebody on a golf course, you better go home. If you don't kill them, they'll kill you.”

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Author:Seve Ballesteros

“I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring.”

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Author:Ian Poulter

“Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.”

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Author:Peter Andrews

“I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.”

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Author:Inbee Park

“The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.”

Source: Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith

“St. Andrews by far is my favorite golf course in the world. It's where the game all started, it's why we have 18 holes instead of 22 and I think the history behind St. Andrews is amazing. There is no other golf course in the world that can say that every great player who has ever played the game has played that golf course.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.”

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Author:Kapil Dev

“The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.”

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Author:Hank Ketcham

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