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- Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. — British author A.A. Milne
- You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. — American sportswriter Grantland Rice
- If I had won...all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life. — Australian professional golfer Greg Norman, on his having won 20 PGA Tour events and having recorded fifteen top-five finishes in the four major championship tournaments–The Masters, the United States Open, The Open Championship, and the PGA Championship–yet having won just two of the latter, the 1986 and 1993 Open Championships
- I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now. — South African professional golfer Ernie Els, pictured, on the desire of some players that putters with elongated shafts should be banned from use in tournament play by the The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and the United States Golf Association, the two ruling authorities responsible for the promulgation of the Rules of Golf
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- The rookies are awesome. They are the future of the LPGA Tour. They have to go on with it and keep this going and stay as they are. — American professional golfer and Solheim Cup team captain, on the performances of Paula Creamer, Natalie Gulbis, and Christina Kim, each then aged fewer than 23 years, in the 2005 Cup, in which the American team defeated that representing Europe, 15½-12½
- What a stupid I am! — Argentine professional golfer and World Golf Hall of Famer Roberto DeVicenzo, upon his learning of having signed an incorrect scorecard–one that, wrongly marked by playing partner Tommy Aaron, assessed him one extra stroke–subsequent to his final round at the 1968 Masters Tournament and thus having forfeited the opportunity to contest an 18-hole playoff against Bob Goalby
- I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour...I always felt that was too young of an age for that. — American professional golfer Hale Irwin, on his having played in PGA Tour events whilst eligible for and playing on the senior Champions Tour
- It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them. — American professional golfer Curtis Strange, on smooth golf swing of American professional golfer Sam Snead, the winningest-ever PGA Tour player and a seven-time men's major and six-time senior men's major champion
- Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree. — American professional golfer Babe Zaharias, the 1950 Grand Slam winner and seven-time major champion, on confronting the mid-20th century male-centricity of the sport
- Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course–the distance between your ears. – American golfer Bobby Jones
- I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. – British author G.K. Chesterton
- I miss it, I miss it, I miss it, I make it. – Spanish golfer Severiano Ballesteros, on his requiring four putts to complete the 16th hole at Augusta National Golf Club during The Masters Tournament in 1988, in which he eventually finished 11th
- His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays. – Australian golfer Ian Baker-Finch, on the long tee shots of American golfer John Daly
- I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here. – Fijian golfer Vijay Singh, on Swedish golfer Annika Sörenstam's playing in the 2003 Bank of America Colonial tournament, an event on the PGA Tour
- I had a 15th club in my bag. – American golfer Ben Crenshaw, on why he won The Masters Tournament in 1995, referencing his erstwhile golf instructor, American Harvey Penick, who had died just three days thither
- We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. – South African Gary Player, on the importance of a professional golfer's mental fitness
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- Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. – American golfer Arnold Palmer
- I know I'm getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators. – American president Gerald Ford, pictured, joking about his proclivity toward hitting errant golf shots, especially off the tee
- Forget your opponents; always play against par. - American golfer Sam Snead
- Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. - British poet William Wordsworth
- Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose. - American President Woodrow Wilson
- It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. - American golfer and course architect Bobby Jones
- Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour [the PGA Tour]. If she keeps working, keeps doing the right things, there's no reason why she shouldn't be out here. - South African golfer Ernie Els, on American golfer Michelle Wie after the 2004 Sony Open, where Wie missed by one stroke qualifying for weekend play
- What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. - American golfer Arnold Palmer
- Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. - American golfer Ben Hogan
- I just didn't feel comfortable hitting a wedge. To me it's against the spirit of the game, and maybe it would have been against the spirit of a Frenchman. - French golfer Jean van de Velde, explaining why, on the last hole of the 1999 Open Championship, needing only to avoid a triple bogey to win, he played aggressively and recorded a seven, eventually losing the Claret Jug in a playoff
