5. “One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot – the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.” – Peter Jacobsen
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6. “This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.” – Ben Hogan
7. “Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.” – Heywood Hale Broun
8. “Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it’s all in the mind.” – Dan Jenkins
9. “The mind messes up more shots than the body.” – Tommy Bolt
10. “Golf is a science, the study of a lifetime, in which you can exhaust yourself but never your subject.” – David Forgan
11. “Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.” – Dr. Bob Rotella
12. “The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.” – Johnny Miller
13. “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” – Arnold Palmer
14. “You don’t know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket.” – Lee Trevino
15. “Golf is not a game of good shots. It’s a game of bad shots.” – Ben Hogan
16. “Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.” – Jack Nicklaus
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17. “A golfer has to train his swing on the practice tee, then trust it on the course.” – Dr. Bob Rotella
18. “I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.” – Arnold Palmer
19. “Hit the shot you know you can hit, not the one you think you should.” – Dr. Bob Rotella
20. “Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.” – Bruce Crampton
21. “For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.” – Harry Vardon
22. “Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.” – Tiger Woods
23. “Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.” –
24. “Forget your opponents; always play against par.” – Sam Snead
25. “ on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.” – Tiger Woods
26. “A good player who is a great putter is a match for any golfer. A great hitter who cannot putt is a match for no one.” – Ben Sayers
27. “If you worry about making bogeys, it makes the game that much more difficult. You put more pressure on yourself without even noticing it. It makes a difference to take it easy when things aren’t going right.” – Sergio Garcia
28. “Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.” – Martin Sheen
29. “Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.” – Bobby Jones
30. “Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that’s really where the strokes come off the scorecard.” – Paula Creamer
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31. “If you are going to talk negative about a place, you’re almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.” – Jordan Spieth
32. “You do what you need to if you’re serious about playing great golf.” – David Duval
33. “A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.” – Jack Nicklaus
34. “I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.” – Zach Johnson
35. “The most important shot in golf is the next one.” – Ben Hogan
36. “Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.” –
37. “Golf is all about patience – one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.” – Lindsey Vonn
38. “Golf is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.” – P. G. Wodehouse
39. “Golf is a humbling sport.” – Peter Uihlein
40. “There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.” – Lee Trevino
41. “A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.” – Mac O’Grady
42. “I’ve had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I’ve spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.” – Tiger Woods
43. “Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can’t play if I can’t compete.” – Jack Nicklaus
44. “You don’t have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today’s game. It may be far from your best, but that’s all you’ve got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.” – Walter Hagen
45. “Golf and dating don’t mix.” – Larry David
46. “When you – when you play golf with somebody, you spend four hours or more walking with somebody, usually, you learn something about them that you didn’t know before.” – Tom Lehman
47. “Golf is a working man’s in Scotland.” – Brian Binnie
48. “Golf is my boyfriend right now.” – Karrie Webb
49. “Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.” – Tom Watson
50. “One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.” – Bobby Jones
51. “Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.” – John Updike
52. “There’s so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.” – Ernie Els
53. “The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.” – Ted Allen
54. “Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.” – B. C. Forbes
55. “It’s such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you’re trying to achieve.” – Lee Westwood
56. “Golf is evolving, every day, every shot.” – Tiger Woods
57. “Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It’s about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.” – Celine Dion
58. “No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.” – Tom Watson
59. “To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.” – P. G. Wodehouse
60. “The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.” – Phil Mickelson
61. “Golf is a game with morals. There’s always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That’s why it’s a gentleman’s game.” – Katt Williams
62. “Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.” – Nancy Lopez
63. “Feel is the most perplexing part of golf, and probably the most important.” – Arnold Palmer
64. “Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you’re the best.” – Jack Nicklaus
65. “There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.” – Dan Jenkins
66. “Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.” – Matt Kuchar
67. “The greatest thing about golf, there’s no end to it unless you’re dead. You just go from here to the Senior Tour.” – Fuzzy Zoeller
68. “If you are caught on a golf course and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.” – Lee Trevino
69. “It’s nice to win. I’ll never win again. I may have to take up golf – take on Tiger.” – Lance Armstrong
70. “Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don’t be afraid to have success or . That is what golf is all about.” – Paula Creamer
71. “Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you only cheat yourself.” – Tony Lema
72. “The only time are never answered is on the golf course.” – Billy Graham
73. “You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.” – Tony Lema
74. “It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.” –
75. “Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.” – Arnold Palmer
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76. “I love to play golf, and that’s my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.” – Tiger Woods
77. “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
78. “Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.” – William Wordsworth
79. “I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.” – Gerald R. Ford
80. “Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.” – P. G. Wodehouse
81. “If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” – Jack Lemmon
82. “Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.” – Ben Hogan
83. “Going to the golf course every day for work? That’s a good job.” – Dennis Quaid
84. “He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.” –
85. “There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth… It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.” – Arnold Palmer
86. “Golf is a good walk spoiled.” – Mark Twain
87. “I’m getting better and better each year that I’m playing golf on the world stage, and finishing runner-up only teaches you how to continue being patient – something that is key to our game.” – Jason Day
88. “I never learned anything from a match that I won.” – Bobby Jones
89. “Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.” – Paul Harvey
90. “A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.” – Bruce Forsyth
91. “Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.” – Mia Hamm
92. “Show me a man who is a good loser and I’ll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.” – James Patrick Murray
93. “I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love. Tiger Woods
94. “Golf is fun – until you hit somebody in the head.” – Charles Barkley
95. “I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.” – Lewis Black