The follow-through is that part of the golf swing that takes place after the ball has been struck but before the club has been thrown. -- Henry Beard
In golf, when we hit a foul ball, we've got to go out there and play it. -- Sam Snead, comparing golf to baseball
I'm one under. One under a tree, one under a rock, one under a bush... -- Pro hockey goalie Gary Cheevers
Jimmy Demaret and I had the best sports psychologist in the world. His name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting for us after every round. -- Jackie Burke
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill-adapted for the purposes. -- Woodrow Wilson
Combination rest home and gold mine. -- Dan Jenkins, about the Senior Tour
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. -- Arnold Daly
Most people play like Magellan. They're all over the world. -- Bob Toski
I never exaggerate. I just remember big. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
I would like to think of myself as an athlete first, but I don't want to do a disservice to the real ones. -- David Duval
By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit it that far. -- Jacob Braude
I used to shoot my age. Now I would just like to shoot my temperature. -- Jerry Feliciotto
I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade. -- Bobby Jones, when told it was 105 degrees in the shade
I played so bad I got a get-well card from the IRS. -- Johnny Miller, on his disastrous 1977 season
Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt. -- Jim Bishop
If you can smile when all around you have lost their heads, you must be the caddie. -- Mike Ryan
The safest place would be in the fairway. -- Joe Garagiola, describing the best place for spectators to stand during celebrity golf tournaments
There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice. -- Thomas Mulligan
I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday. -- Mike Morley
Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one. -- Martha Beckman
I must say, my pal Charlie (Pride) hit some good woods...most of them were trees. -- Glen Campbell
I played the Tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell. -- Lee Trevino
Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out of doors. -- Paul O'Neil
Around the clubhouse they'll tell you even God has to practice his putting. In fact, even Nicklaus does. -- Jim Murray
Some of these Legends of Golf have been around for a long time. When they talk about having a good grip, they're talking about dentures. -- Bob Hope, on the Senior Tour
Golf fairways should be made more narrow. Then everyone would have to play from the rough, not just me. -- Seve Ballesteros
Golf is like a puzzle without an answer. -- Gary Player
I can airmail the ball, but sometimes I don't get the right address on it. -- Jim Dent
I played nine holes with the new short-distance ball. Playing a match with it is like two boxers fighting with pillows. -- Sam Snead
It wasn't dangerous enough. I'd rather be in the gallery and get hit by a ball. -- Jerry Seinfield, on the first round of golf he ever played
There are no mulligans in that sport. -- Gary Player, about bungee jumping
Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. -- Hal Linden
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. -- Jackie Gleason
He has won almost as much money playing golf as I've spent on lessons. -- Bob Hope, on Arnold Palmer
Golf practice: something you do to convert a nasty hook into a wicked slice. -- Henry Beard
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more 20-yard grounder. -- Jim Bishop
If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands. -- Gary Player
Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time. -- E.C. McKenzie
Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter, how the finished painting looks is what matters. -- Jerry Pate
A golfer is someone with hoof and mouth disease. He hoofs it all day and mouths it all night. -- Will Rogers
You have to put your putter out to pasture every so often, let it eat and get fat so it can get more birdies. -- Greg Norman
How long does John Daly drive a golf ball? When I was a kid I didn't go that far on vacation. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy. -- Bobby Jones
The game was easy for me as a kid. I had to play it a while to find out how hard it is. -- Raymond Floyd
Golf is a game where the ball always lies poorly and the player well. -- Ben Polish
In case you don't know very much about the game of golf, a good one-iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife. -- Dan Jenkins
I've lost 2,000 pounds, but I've gained 2,200. -- Billy Casper, on his personal "Battle of the Bulge"
If it weren't for golf, I'd probably be a caddie today. -- George Archer
After an abominable round of golf, a man is known to have slit his wrists with a razor blade and, having bandaged them, to have stumbled into the locker room and inquired of his partner, "What time tomorrow?" -- Alistair Cooke