21 Golf Quotes to Inspire and Amuse

You don’t choose the game, it chooses you.

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.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots—but you have to play the ball where it lies.

If I can hit a curveball, why can’t I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

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

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

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.