Top 110 Golf Course Quotes

‘From Here to Eternity’ happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

I wasn’t a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

Whenever I’m stressed out or having a bad day, the one thing that gets me happy or back into like a good place of mind is being on the golf course. I love being out there, especially really early in the morning getting the first tee time out and just playing by myself. It’s so peaceful.

Throughout the course of the day, I’ll have a GoMacro bar here and there, I’ll have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I’ll have another protein drink, I’ll have at least two protein drinks on the golf course, at every six holes, and then after the round I’ll have one.

Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.

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.

A lot of guys are known for the stuff they do off the golf course and who they like to hang around. It’s pretty obvious who’s doing that and who isn’t.

Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage – I’m having fun.

Being the world’s greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

I’m always thinking and so even if I’m not on the golf course I’m mentally thinking.

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I’ll never forget those things.

Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones’ philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

Some guys get on the road, the first thing they do is look for the nearest golf course. I look for a gym.

I haven’t played a full round of golf yet, but I did make two pars my first time out on a golf course.

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.

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.

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.

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

When I’m off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I’m a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.

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

I got caught up with gambling at the golf course, the backroom card games at the casinos with buddies there, and eventually betting on sporting events. I think it became a situation where I got consumed by it and loved every minute of it.

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.

Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you’re going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I’ve played with golfers who’ve done that, and I really hate to see it. If I did something like that, my dad would come get the putter and hit me upside the head with it. I knew better.

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

First of all my golfing experience spans all corners of the World – Brazil, New Zealand, L.A. And I think the best place is when you play with friends. I particularly enjoy playing golf with my best friend, former Manchester United player Dwight Yorke. It is the best experience when we can get together on a golf course.

My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I’d certainly answer their questions, but I’m not involved in the site visits or anything else.

On the golf course, playing cards, running to the casinos, betting on college and pro football, it keeps spilling over to the next step, the next step, the next step. I basically started giving people information that I was receiving in the locker room, injury reports.

The thing that really gets me about the game is I’ve never played two rounds that were anywhere close to being the same – ever. Even with the same golf course and setup, nothing is ever the same. I love that about golf.

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

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.

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.

I took my basic training on a golf course in Florida. Then I was on the boxing team. We did some demonstrations, and they put me in a theater one night and wanted me to box. So OK, I came out boxing with a friend – thinking we would just spar around – but the guy walked out, hit me, and knocked me out with one stroke.

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

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.

I am a fanatic when it comes to the game, so I need to know there is a golf course not far away when I’m on holiday, such as when I stayed at the Four Seasons Resort Nevis. It is a beautiful hotel with a great golf course, which made it even better.

For a guy who spends endless hours on a golf course, it’s best not to have a wife waiting for you at home.

I’m trying to get better on and off the golf course at all times so I think it’s a work in progress all day long.

I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that’s the first time I ever hit a golf ball. I picked it up pretty quickly, just kind of monkey-see, monkey-do. But when I was 12, golf was so slow to me. For me, it was basketball, girls and music.

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.

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.

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.

I just love hanging out with good company on a great, fun golf course.

It’s a really good place for me to be, on the golf course.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief – call it what you will – than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

I have a very good sense of humour. I love telling jokes, especially on the golf course.

Rob Goldstone is a talent manager for Emin Agalarov, who’s an Azerbaijani Russian singer who performed at Miss Universe and later performed at the WGC championship golf course tournament that we held at Doral.

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.

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.

BLT Prime at Trump National Doral is essential after a long day on the golf course. The popover bread alone is enough to keep me coming back!

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.

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.

When you’re on a golf course, a couple of things are very interesting. No matter who you’re with and who you’re playing with, people want each other to do well.

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.

I’m a pretty low-stress guy. I take what the golf course gives me. Some days, when I’m in full control, I’m able to fire at pins with 5-irons. Other days, I’m looking more toward the middle of the green.

If you’ve driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it’s like a golf course… Real estate values go ‘boom!’

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

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.

I’m not always smiling when I’m on the golf course. Sometimes, hey, listen, people have regular jobs. You go to them when they’re working, and you catch them not in the best moment either. So I understand how people could perceive me. But come get to know me, and I’m totally a different person.

Wind turbines are imposing structures and definitely not the kind of thing one wants to see from a golf course.

I don’t hit it very far; I don’t overpower a golf course, but I think I’m a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

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.

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that’s out of control. It always seems to happen. But they’ve gotten better about the height of the rough.

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.

You don’t go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you’re building a golf course.

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.

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.

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It’s not that they have to sink the putt and there’s a great deal of talent involved – but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

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.

The fans have always helped me get through good things and bad things on and off the golf course.

When I’m off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.

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?

You go out on the practice range, and something kind of clicks, and you start hitting the ball very crisply. And you’re sure that you’ve found it, the holy grail – that all you have to do is hold your hand in a certain way. Then you go out on the golf course, and it’s completely disappeared.

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

When I’d get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 – even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.

I think every part of your game, on this golf course, needs to be good. You’ve got to hit every club in the bag. You need to drive it well, hit your irons well, and always, if you want to have a chance to win a Major, then you’ve got to putt it well.

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.

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course to practice. Sometimes they’d come from the beach at dark to pick me up at the course.

I like going there for golf. America’s one vast golf course these days.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life – to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.

I love my grandpa so much. I’ve just spent so many times with him on the golf course. He’s watched me play and win so many junior golf tournaments.

I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it.

Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

It’s quite nice to play on a golf course that, even though it is links, that there’s not much wind, which is good.

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.

I worked at the golf course, and I always had dreams and aspirations of being a professional golfer.

I am a big fan of Bournemouth, having enjoyed many happy hours on its sandy beach and crazy golf course.

Off the court, most of my time is on the golf course. I spend my time golfing, mostly relaxing at home and playing video games.

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

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.

PGA of America has been very good to me; played some of the Junior Ryder Cups, and those go down as some of the best experiences I’ve had on a golf course.

It’s pretty obvious when Tiger makes a birdie. I think everybody at the golf course cheers for him.

If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he’s with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.

The sport is not about one player, and I say that with a world of respect for his talents on the golf course. But the game is bigger than Tiger Woods.

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.

I’m not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

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

I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I’ve played a different golf course. I’ve played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I’ve played a different golf course.

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.

I play golf with my shirttail out. I own a golf course because it’s very, very close to my house, and I don’t want to drive 45 minutes to the north side of Oklahoma City to play golf every day. I have race horses ’cause I love horses and it’s my hobby.

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.

My dad and grandpa were big golfers, and I think any boy wants to be like their dad. So growing up around him being at the golf course, it was an easy choice for me.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it’s going to bite you.

I never had any alcohol on the golf course that I remember, except for one time, and that was the L.A. Open.