Quotes on Golf Course

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

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

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

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.

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.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

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.

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

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

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

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

Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

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

I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

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.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

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.

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.