Golfing Quotes

"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

George Best

"There are two types of players, those who keep their nerves and win championships and those who don't."

Harry Vardon

"I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you."

Seve Ballesteros

"I never wanted to be a millionaire, I just want to live like one."

Walter Hagen

"If you think it's hard meeting new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." Jack Lemmon

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he is at golf - it's almost a law." H.G.Wells

"I'd give up golf but I have too many sweaters." Bob Hope

"There's a great dignity and sense of decency in the game. In many other sports, players try and find ways around the rules. They are even applauded for it.

In golf if you break the rules your are seen to be less of a person. It is a game of personal reckoning. You have to absorb your mistakes, learn to contend with anger and doubt, and play without complaint or special pleading. These are things that when applied to living make you a better person."

Tom Watson

Seaside Golf by John Betjeman

How straight it flew, how long it flew,
It clear'd the rutty track
And soaring, disappeared from view
Beyond the bunker's back -
A glorious, sailing, bounding drive
That made me glad I was alive.

And down the fairway, far along
It glowed a lonely white;
I played an iron sure and strong
And clipp'd it out of sight,
And spite of grassy banks between
I knew I'd find it on the green.

And so I did. It lay content
Two paces from the pin;
A steady putt and then it went
Oh, most securely in.
The very turf rejoiced to see
That quite unprecedented three.

Ah! seaweed smells from sandy caves
And thyme and mist in whiffs,
In-coming tide, Atlantic waves
Slapping the sunny cliffs,
Lark song and sea sounds in the air
And splendour, splendour everywhere.