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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Tiger Woods

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Bob Hope

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

Sam Snead

But Renton, ... The golf is awful.

Terry Wogan

To me, his golf swing was perfect.

Tom Weiskopf

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf. .

Jack Lemon

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

H. L. Mencken

Could you imagine what she'd do if she played golf all the time?

Rick Sample

Golf is sort of a family thing. It's fun, but I don't like golf half as much as I like hockey.

Maura O'connor

Disc golf lets me forget that anything else matters. It's all about being outside in beautiful surroundings and enjoying the complexities of the game.

Steve Logan

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

John Gunther

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

Harry Vardon

It's a way to introduce people to golf at a reasonable fee.

Rod Metzler

It is kind of amazing that we are even holding the golf tournament this week.

Bob Tway

You attack life and I'm passionate about golf.

Scott Draper

I told him he could play varsity golf as a freshman or play varsity baseball as a junior.

Pete Benson

It's not like I was thinking about anybody else out there -- I was just thinking, 'how can I win this golf tourney?'

Ricky Barnes

It was donated by 12 friends of golf, and it's special. It's a really neat thing for us to get our hands on.

Mark Hill

It's the stupidest rule in golf.

Payne Stewart

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.

Jimmy Demaret

He plays poker by night and golf by day.

Scott Ostler

It's never about purse with me. It all about how I perform on certain golf courses. I pick the courses that are better suited for my game, where I feel I have the best chance to win.

Heath Slocum

This to me is a lot more challenging, ... I enjoy the creativity [of art]. It allows me to express myself, which I can't do in golf. I try, but I don't do very well.

Jim Hubbard

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream.

Jim Murray

It's a college town, and those are the two things that are really marketable for us - the university and golf.

Robyn Bridges

Shortly after I came on, the district acquired the golf dome, which was a failing business. That has been a great boon for the community.

Dan Hovland

Always school first, golf second. There was never any question.

Rudy Duran

That's not including any leisure activities such as golf, fishing or kayaking.

Jeff Mielke

The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

Bobby Jones

He was in the top five in our golf team.

Bobby Anglin

When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It's obsession at first sight.

Thomas Boswell

I played really well, ... These are the conditions where you don't really want to play much golf because if the ball gets wet on the tee box, it can squirt a little bit.

Digvijay Singh

I can honestly say I've never folded my tent once while playing golf.

Mike Weir

Golf is a cruel game.

Graeme Mcdowell

I was a little down for making bogey, and suddenly I'm tied. It's sad to see. But it's golf.

Rod Pampling

It was a pleasant round of golf.

Tom Lehman

Golf requires goofy pants and a fat ass.

Adam Sandler

Golf is the pursuit of the infinite.

Jim Murray

Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club in your hands.

Bobby Jones

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

Will Rogers

The demands of basketball, the pressures of basketball are different than those in golf. Basketball is much more intense. You can be emotional. In golf, the guys who do well are the ones who are able to control their emotions.

Rick Dissinger

Golf is a very humbling game. I just hope the golf gods will be good to me again.

Mark Mcnulty

I have a lot more control over my golf ball and my misses are more predictable. You're only as good as your misses.

Tripp Isenhour

He did play golf, and he did come home. It may have been a side trip.

Dick Harpootlian

College coaches were saying that if I wanted to run cross country in college, I needed to run track as well, so I gave up golf.

Meredith White

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Gerald R. Ford

Most people play a fair game of golf - If you watch them.

Joey Adams

I don't think there's any question he's the best player in Division II, and one of the best players in all of college golf.

Doug Gordin

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

Don Carter

Cape Breton is one of the world's most beautiful islands, boasting this world-class golf course.

Chris Santella

Greg is Australian golf. He doesn't owe the tour anything.

Robert Allenby

There are only two places in Northern California where you can get them (golf carts). We get ours from Gilchrist Golf Carts (in Rocklin).

Mark Wotherspoon

The best weather, the best beaches, the best water and the best golf courses.

Wayne Huizenga

Propaganda as an art form is kind of funny. Golf is funny. It just put a smile on my face.

Danny Roberts

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

Jack Nicklaus

I finally did everything on the golf course. Made birdie, made par, made bogey. After that, I was pretty calm and ready to go.

Michael Putnam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain.

Annika Sorenstam

Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis.

John Hopkins

In 120 days it will be almost groomed and ready to play golf.

Steve Smyers

I was proud of our effort to make it this far. This was a very difficult golf course.

Brian Davis

[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls.

Andy Anderson

Pat played wonderful pressure golf in front of them.

Patty Sheehan

Real golf isn't what you see on TV. This is golf.

Tom Silva

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

Charles Rosin

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

Ben Hogan

This is my second pick as far as my favorite golf course, with my first being Augusta. I couldn't afford the greens fees, so my wife got me this as my gift for my 31st.

Brian Freeland

It's always fun to have a professional tournament come to your golf course.

Pete Dye

If I'm shocked about anything, probably the number they came up with in golf is pretty dominant.

Larry Pendleton

It's just exciting to see such good results. It's very exciting for amateur golf in Canada.

Doug Roxburgh

I think they should make it bicycle and golf-cart parking only. Eliminating the auto parking would ... make it more of a beach facility.

Tim Richards

The idea is to create the feel of a grand estate that goes along with the timeless feel of the golf course.

David Pillsbury

We're playing OK right now, but we're nowhere close to playing our best golf.

Randy Lein

The Bear Creek Golf Club has shown a strong commitment to hits environmental program.

Shawn Williams

He's no longer the golf coach, we'll put it that way.

Patrick Moore

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Ben Hogan

He's a champion and he's won so many golf tournaments.

John Daly

It's a brutal golf hole.

Graeme Mcdowell

We'd go to the beach, play golf, do a little partying, nothing serious.

Todd Sunderland

We are very happy with our hardware, such as golf clubs and exercise equipment, but competition in clothing is as savage as ever and footwear is competitive as well.

Tom Knight

It is true, when you get knocked out you go golfing.

Jim Ingram

We talked more about what it takes to play golf than how to play golf.

Paddy Harrington

For her, it's great to watch ladies golf, ... She's always around men golfing.

Jennifer Hall

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

Arnold Palmer

This is more fun than golfing.

Tom Mclaughlin

She has been good for golf and we're all excited to see how well she can play.

Mark O'meara

I do like getting bitten by a few things. I finished fourth that week. It takes my mind off the golf.

David Lynn

In the golf industry, there is a hesitation to tell the truth.

Chris Baldwin

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Arnold Palmer

Golf is a game not just of manners but of morals.

Art Spander

I'll know I'm getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

Gerald R. Ford

I don't know of any sport where the home field, or course, is more valuable than golf.

Bill League

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.

Lee Trevino

They like the idea of converting a golf course into natural mitigation banks.

Bill Higgins

Golf began to decline nationally.

John Lawton

I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf, ... There goes the Nike account.

Leslie Nielsen

The golf gods don't like impatience.

Jay Reynolds

Instead of sitting in front of the T.V. or computer, what she could do is read or play golf.

Gary Sowpel

The clinic will focus on individual instruction of the golf swing.

Shaun Guyer

It's definitely a championship-caliber golf course. It's a true test of golf.

Bill Barrow

That's golf. I mean, sometimes you show up and play well, and sometimes you don't.

Robert Rohanna

It was very important for my country, ... Today, you get golf more popular.

Nicole Perrot

Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.

Don Herold

It will be nice playing golf without any heat on me.

Tag Ridings

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

Jim Murray

This doesn't solve anything. We are not going to find any solution on golf course property.

Sarah Heard

People were playing golf there two weeks ago.

Jack Mckaig

If I shot that good on a golf course, I'd keep playing it, too.

Jeff Starr

A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.

Harry Vardon

It was the loudest noise I have ever heard on a golf course.

Dave Musgrove

My golf swing curves like that also.

Sheldon Souray

We were excited that we could get in on the ground floor, ... Two golf courses, two clubhouses and everything that goes with them -- I haven't seen it done like this anywhere.

Larry Hart

Golf has lost a great champion.

Ben Crenshaw

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out of doors.

Paul O'neil

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Ben Hogan

Everybody knows this is a tough golf course.

Jeff Blumling

We don't have any matches down there. We're just going to play golf.

Greg Zenerovitz

But this week is a lot better. I even played golf this week.

Jamie Mcmurray

When the players return here, they're going to really see a different golf course, a golf course that really has more definition.

Rees Jones

We're going to become partners with the golfers in building their golf swings.

Frank Shaw

That is all I am concerned with. I am leading a golf tournament and that is all I should be focusing on at the moment. This week and this week only.

Brett Rumford

Fifteen years ago, nobody had heard of disc golf, now it's everywhere.

David Whitehouse

I've never had a round like that. That's as close to a perfect round of golf as I've ever played.

Charles Warren

It's a shot-maker's golf course. And it's not a one-dimensional type golf course.

Fred Funk

Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease.

Sam Snead

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Roger Kahn

College golf isn't going to do anything for her.

David Fay

If you wanted to have a meeting or a golf outing, which would you choose?

Jerry Jaeger

I don't think there can be a greater honor for any golfer, what they can do off the golf course.

Brad Faxon

That's where a lot of the networking in Vietnam goes on -- the golf course.

Thinh Nguyen

I saw the club head at the top of Love's golf swing and you could almost do chin-ups on it.

Davis Love Iii

Golf is a good walk, ruined.

Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mark Twain

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

Patty Berg

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.

Bing Crosby

He's got that nice-guy image, but he doesn't have any 'bite' to him. If he were selling golf balls, I'd buy them.

Paul Lavoie

When I finally won a golf tournament, it was relief, it wasn't excitement, ... If I were to win (today), it would be a much more exciting win than the one at Disney World.

Brad Bryant

It's probably one of the most important holes in this golf tournament.

Charles Howell

Golf courses don't really want us very much. But some of them are so generous for letting us play there.

Hank Bontrager

I think anything under par out here on this golf course is a good score.

Chris Haack

We expect to become the premier golf trail in the Midwest.

Debbie Moore

I just play golf and enjoy my game. So I don't care about who is playing.

Seon Hwa Lee

So the more people use the golf course, the more rewards they earn.

Doug Juhasz

It's where you want to be, ... It's only what you make of it, and it's still golf tomorrow [today]. It should be exciting.

Jason Gore

Take golf out of the equation, and ask yourself, 'Will I still be happy there?' .

Chris Haack

It is something not too many college golf teams have ever done.

Oliver Drake

With golf, there's no big crowds or game-winning shots. Golf is all about mental focus and pacing.

Christian Mathew

She is committed to golf. She plays with a purpose because golf is important to her.

Jimmy Brown

He's such a gifted athlete, all it took was a few fundamental changes. It's awesome being around J.J. because we're always talking about golf and watching the Golf Channel. It's exciting to go to the course everyday.

Michael Baird

It's good to see The Golf Channel somehow get into it. By then hopefully it's plugged into cable.

Paul White

I think this is what golf is all about, ... You have the same crowd that you would normally have in a regular LPGA event, but . . . you get some emotions out there that you wouldn't expect to see on the golf course. . . . It's a beautiful thing.

Christina Kim

The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.

Sam Snead

They don't make any money when we're there. They are real friends of junior golf.

Hank Bontrager

It was just an outstanding day for our golfers. Everybody -- from top to bottom -- contributed their best golf of the year, Boys and girls.

James Williams

The volunteers don't need to know anything about golf. We have training for them.

Cheryle Simon

This tournament is up for grabs. With the difficulty of this golf course, anybody can still win.

Shannon Rouillard

We thought we could fund it with excess golf revenue. That all changed in the mid 90s.

Roy Sutherland

It's difficult for most freshmen to understand just how much of a commitment college golf is. They just have to learn it for themselves.

Bruce Heppler

Golf is a challenge, but it's also my therapy. That's what gets me through a lot of things.

Custis Wright

Each of the golf carts will have a name on the front of it, and those golf carts will represent the counties that are actually in Ireland.

Nadia Skertich

The future of Canadian golf is in good hands.

Mike Weir

The golf team is off to a strong start.

Randy Owen

PGA golf is their dream, but there's not anything foreseeable. Based on that fact, we won't look at it at this point.

Jim Rowe

I ended up chasing them down the stairs. I was in my boxers chasing them with a golf club.

Shawn Costino

Most people want to get in a round of golf at these kind of events, and you can't do that in Detroit in February.

Doug Knittle

My whole adult life, my dream was to live on a golf course. Now I'm not going to have a golf course ... the city is going to take it away from me.

Tim Kennedy

Our core concern wasn't really answered, which is that the golf course becomes a substitute for the governor's office.

James Browning

It would be a major shock to this community to lose golf entirely.

John Lawton

The players are devastated but that is golf - they have to pick themselves up and prepare for Friday.

Jeff Toye

Golf changed, and we didn't change with it.

Justin Conrad

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

Jack Nicklaus

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Will Rogers

It's the largest golf market in the world, and there's always a demand for public, affordable golf here in Bergen.

Brian Hague

Proceeds from this event are going to the Claude Harmon Foundation and to the First Tee program at Redstone Golf Club.

Charlie Epps

I never really took to golf until I was in the sixth grade, because I was always playing baseball.

Andy Benson

We need a golf course in this county for the citizens of this county. I think this is the right time for you to consider building a course.

Hector Rodriguez

. . . I came out here so I could afford a house, and because I love my golf.

Robert G. Allen

Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

Buddy Hackett

He wants to know when he can swing a golf club. We'll see.

David Adkison

Golf is a better game played downhill.

Jack Nicklaus

One year, I was supposed to be the golf coach. I ended up doing it for 20.

Herb Magee

I told Whiz it took me two years to get him off the golf course and doing what he does best. And that's coach basketball.

Gavin Maloof

Golf is a game where every shot counts.

Skip Fabritius

Everybody that builds a new development these days builds a new golf course, ... Today, the country club has to compete for memberships, with 15 courses that were not here when we started.

Gus Cooper

Golf has always been a passion for me, ... Football is a very intense sport, and golf is considered a 'gentlemen's game.'

Charles Carter

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

Julius Boros

If this is the first time you saw it, you wouldn't think much about it. But I think back to when Tiger (Woods) won in '97, it's not even the same golf course.

Charles Howell Iii

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

Byron Nelson

Golf is not a funeral, though both can be very sad affairs.

Bernard Darwin

The elimination of one and a half golf courses was a very big deal for us.

Stefanie Olivieri

This is the best golf community in the United States.

Pat Goss

It's not just about being on the golf course. It's fitness centers, hobbies and crafts, classes. It's really a chance to meet people.

Tracy Lux

Those are the things I can help them with. I'm not a golf pro by any means. I can help some of the beginners, but most of the girls are so advanced. They get their technical help elsewhere.

Kyle Adams

I've always had an interest and addiction to photography. I do events and weddings and my specialty is golf course photography.

John Ehle

One of the areas that I have pointed out is the need to have more details about the golf course.

Nan Stoltzenburg

Golf has a problem because there is not a defined season. Why bash your head against football?

Bill Paul

Golf has become a tourism tool.

David Spencer

This will be world-class golf and we won't have to drive to Chicago to see it. This is a major thing. There will be a lot of future PGA players right here in our area.

Scott Bennett