Golf Strokes Quotes & Sayings

Bobby JonesConsidered objectively, it is quite obviously a very simple matter to propel a ball with a stick across some specially prepared ground and into a hole which is of sufficient size to accomodate it by a good margin. Simple that is, provided there is no limit upon the time or the number of strokes required. — Bobby Jones

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser. — Arnold Palmer

The cheaper the stock, the better the outlook for future returns. — Robert Haugen

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance. — Joe Laurie Jr.

Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

I saw clearly that something could be found there which had long since ceased to exist in Europe and I considered that the direction I had taken was the right one. But, at the same time, I — P.D. Ouspensky

Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. — Ernest Shackleton

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head. — Harry Vardon

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard. — Paula Creamer

Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole. — Bob Hope

I can lip read, so I know what other people are saying about me - especially when I clock them in my rear view mirror ... — Max Beesley

Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course. — Henry Beard

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course. — Lee Trevino

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them. — Lewis B. Smedes

Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. — John Marin

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes. — Bobby Jones

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own. — Ben Hogan

The denial of the popular will, Jefferson said privately, "opens upon us an abyss at which every sincere patriot must shudder."15 — Jon Meacham

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home. — A. W. Tillinghast

No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game. — Woody Allen

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. — Hayley Mills

I don't know what it is that comes over me, but suddenly I'm crossing to his side of the table and sitting down in his lap, arms wrapping around his neck. His lips are soft against mine, and when I part them he tenderly obliges, tasting me delicately. His fingers prod at my back, never going further than the small indent at the base of the spine, and it's all very lovely and nice.
"I think I could get used to you," I say, looking down into his beautiful brown eyes, deep like the color of autumn.
(From "Undone, The Romance of Nick and Layla [Part 5"]). — Crystal Cierlak

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes. — Bob Hope

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes. — Michael Wilbon