Quotes about Golf Course

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. Votes: 4

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter. Votes: 4

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. Votes: 4

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave. Votes: 4

Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics. Votes: 4

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Votes: 4

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. Votes: 4

Golf course design is exciting. Votes: 2

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built. Votes: 2

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it. Votes: 2

I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today. Votes: 2

I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course. Votes: 2

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course. Votes: 2

A good golf course is like good music. It does not necessarily appeal the first time one plays it. Votes: 2

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage. Votes: 2

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course. Votes: 2

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time. Votes: 2

If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!' Votes: 2

I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot. Votes: 2

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do. Votes: 2

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end. Votes: 2

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. Votes: 2

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. Votes: 2

I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you do, don't come up short. Votes: 2

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment. Votes: 2

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. Votes: 2

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. Votes: 2

When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit. Votes: 2

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth. Votes: 2

My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit. Votes: 2

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then. Votes: 2

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor. Votes: 2

I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today. Votes: 2

I will fall in love with any golf course that you have to drive the ball straight. You understand what I'm saying? That's my advantage. My advantage wasn't putting. In fact, I wasn't even a great putter or a good putter. Votes: 2

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it. Votes: 2

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. Votes: 2

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there. Votes: 2

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf. Votes: 2

I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot. Votes: 2

I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played. Votes: 2

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well. Votes: 2

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course. Votes: 0

On the value of blind shots to golf course design. Votes: 0

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course. Votes: 0

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course Votes: 0

Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair? Votes: 0

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course. Votes: 0

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity. Votes: 0

Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course Votes: 0

I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play. Votes: 0

I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days. Votes: 0

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job. Votes: 0

The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan. Votes: 0

The golf course is always in good shape. Paul Latshaw does a reasonable job. Votes: 0

I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course? Votes: 0

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears. Votes: 0

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes. Votes: 0

A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. Votes: 0

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you. Votes: 0

It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded. Votes: 0

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition? Votes: 0

A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping. Votes: 0

I say the American Medical Association ought to get the hell off the golf course and answer this question ... Votes: 0

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage." Votes: 0

I don't like the way most people dress on the golf course. I think it's pretty bland, pretty boring. Votes: 0

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses. Votes: 0

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course. Votes: 0

Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it. Votes: 0

Every time you build a golf course, it's not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise. Votes: 0

Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either. Votes: 0

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter. Votes: 0

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more. Votes: 0

I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream. Votes: 0

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course. Votes: 0

emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea... Votes: 0

A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes. Votes: 0

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro. Votes: 0

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go. Votes: 0

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course. Votes: 0

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. Votes: 0

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city. Votes: 0

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can. Votes: 0

We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot. Votes: 0

I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home! Votes: 0

When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course. Votes: 0

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him. Votes: 0

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course. Votes: 0

Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues. Votes: 0

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero. Votes: 0

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Who listens to golfers? They're boring. If I want to wear camouflage on the golf course during a tournament, I will. And I have. Votes: 0

Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it? Votes: 0

Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was. Votes: 0

The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club. Votes: 0

I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course. Votes: 0

I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree. Votes: 0

My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course. Votes: 0

I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done. Votes: 0

I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life. Votes: 0

People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them. Votes: 0

I've always - I grew up on the old-style traditional type of golf course, tree lined and all small greens, big undulations. And Oakmont just fit my eye. Votes: 0

He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it. Votes: 0

I'm not a huge shopper. I love looking good - obviously, on the golf course I like looking sharp, that's for sure. I'm just not into knowing brands. Votes: 0

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked. Votes: 0

I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day. Votes: 0

The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth. Votes: 0

In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart. Votes: 0

Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course. Votes: 0

I have a random array of ball markers in my bag and don't use any specific one. Many are the plastic kind you find at almost any golf course. Votes: 0

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs. Votes: 0

When I was a little girl in Savannah playing, there were never enough hours in the day or holes on the golf course. I just loved the game so much. Votes: 0

If you hit a bad shot, just tell yourself it is great to be alive, relaxing and walking around on a beautiful golf course. The next shot will be better. Votes: 0

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention. Votes: 0

A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course. Votes: 0

I have been attempting to meditate more. Golf is my state of peace, though. The tranquility of a golf course, all of the trees, the oxygen. It puts me right at ease. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can. Votes: 0

You play the golf course just like you played it in your practice rounds and you stick to your game plan and just try to get whatever you can out of it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon. Votes: 0

A lot of people think I am cold and have no feelings. But I do. I just try very hard to focus and not let my emotions take over on the golf course. Votes: 0

Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play. Votes: 0

I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good. Votes: 0

I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course. Votes: 0

I don’t like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts. Votes: 0

The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life. Votes: 0

You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool. Votes: 0

If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row. Votes: 0

I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away. Votes: 0

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy. Votes: 0

So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course. Votes: 0