When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs.

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

I cannot deny that on a breezy summer's day, Fishers Island is one of the most idyllic places possible for a round of golf.

If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.

Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

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.

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

You've got a fairly good idea as to what the questions are going to be. But how to record the best answer is another matter.

Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.

When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands.

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed.

The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.

When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

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 husbands work.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

This fitness thing is blown out of proportion. What am I going to do on a treadmill - smoke a cigarette and drink a diet Coke?

I don't mind when I hit a ball in the woods. I think of it as an adventure. That's when golf really starts to get interesting.

On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic.

I'm pretty certain that I'm the only son of a billionaire who can drive a D10 Caterpillar better than I can drive a golf cart.

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart.

My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that's what I wanted to do.

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

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

With golf becoming part of the Olympics now, it is even more imperative that more of the middle class get access to the sport.

I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.

Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills

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've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

I feel like I've improved at everything I've done every single year - except golf. Golf, I've managed to stay exactly the same.

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.

I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

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