Famous Golf Sayings
Sayings #2

"It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it."
Patty Sheenan

"If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class."
Ray Floyd

"It's the most fun I've ever had with my clothes on."
Lee Trevino

"The players themselves can be classified into two groups- the attractions and the entry fees."
Jimmy Demaret

"Let's see, I think I right now I'm third in the money-winning and first in money-spending."
Tony Lema

"There are no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball in the cup that counts."
Brian Swarbrick

"You've just got one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it."
Sam Snead

"Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?"
Jimmy Demaret

"Golf is an easy game... it's just hard to play."
Unknown

"The number one thing about trouble is... don't get into more."
Dave Stockton

"Mulligan: invented by a Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder."
Jim Bishop

"No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine."
Lee Trevino

"Golf is 90 percent inspiration and 10 percent perspiration."
Johnny Miller

"Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease."
Bertie Charles Forbes

"My best score ever was 103, but I've only been playing 15 years."
Alex Karris

"Lay off for three weeks, and then quit for good."
Sam Snead

"Golf is the hardest game in the world to play, and the easiest to cheat at."
Dave Hill

"I've made a million, but I don't have a million."
Walt Zambriski

"You don't know what pressure is until you've played for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket."
Lee Trevino

"In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference."
Unknown

"Victory is everything. You can spend the money, but you can never spend the memories."
Ken Venturi

"Real golfers don't miss putts, they get robbed."
Unknown

"Real golfers have two handicaps: one for bragging and one for betting."
Unknown

"If you want to take long walks, take long walks. If you want to hit things with a stick, hit things with a stick. But there's no excuse for combining the two and putting the results on TV. Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns."
National Lampoon

"Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag."
Adlai Stevenson

"If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball."
Jack Lemmon

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf"
Bob Hope

"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States."
H.L. Mencken

"Golf is twenty percent mechanics and technique. The other eighty percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness, and conversation.
Grantland Rice

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."
Ben Hogan

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