Philosophical golf quotes and insights into the world of golf.
Golf is a game, not a sport.
I realized that the secret to golf isn't how low you shoot when it's going good, it's how to make your bad rounds better.
The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.
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.
Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears.
Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.
Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.
Forget your opponents; always play against par.
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
A passion, an obsession, a romance, a nice acquaintanceship with trees, sand, and water.