- “The Open Championship is golf’s greatest stage, where the drama unfolds on nature’s terms.” – Seve Ballesteros
- “Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round.” – Walter Hagen
- “Golf is the loneliest sport. You’re completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself.” – Hale Irwin
- “How straight it flew, how long it flew.” – John Betjeman
- “Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.” – Ben Hogan
- “Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whatever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock.” – P.G. Wodehouse
- “Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.” – Jack Nicklaus
- “My favourite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.” – Lord Robertson
- “If you’re 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
- “Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I’ve played the game for 50 years, and I still haven’t the slightest idea of how to play.” – Gary Player
- “If your adversary is badly bunkered, there is no rule against your standing over him counting his strokes aloud, with increasing gusto as their number mounts up, but it will be a wise precaution to arm yourself with the niblick before doing so, so as to meet him on equal terms.” – Horace Hutchinson
- “Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.” – Bobby Jones
- “People don’t understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented… The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that’s been what has gotten me this far.” – Tiger Woods
- “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. It is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.” – Arnold Palmer
- “Golf is the infallible test… is the man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.” – P.G. Wodehouse
- “If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.” – Horace Hutchinson
- “A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration.” – Bobby Jones
- “Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.” – A.A. Milne
- “Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.” – Ben Hogan
- “You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husband’s work.” – Lee Trevino
- “Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whatever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock.” – P.G. Wodehouse
- “Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round.” – Walter Hagen
- “Golf is the loneliest sport. You’re completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself.” – Hale Irwin
- “How straight it flew, how long it flew.” – John Betjeman
- “Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.” – Ben Hogan
