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G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game.

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more.

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

Golf and dating don't mix.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.

Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?

Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it.

Golf is a nice game, but that's all. It's never going to be an exciting game to watch on TV. It's not a circus and never will be one. The audience for golf is not going to change significantly. It's always going to be people who play it, understand it, and love it.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Golf is a stupid game. You tee up this little ball, really this tiny ball. Then you hit it, try to find it, hit it. And the goal is to get it into a little hole placed in a hard spot.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.

Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again.

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.

Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.

Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself can only stand for ‘Get Out, Leave Family.’

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course.

Golf's three ugliest words: still your shot.

Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of fame and let us live in the tall cotton.

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.

Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

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

Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

Golf is a game of precision, not strength.

Golf is a lot like sex. It's something you can enjoy all your life. And if you remain an amateur, you get to pick your own playing partners.

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.