Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.
Success in this game depends less on strength of body than strength of mind and character.
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore', shoot six, and write down five.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.
Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.
The most important thing in golf is the follow-through.
Golf is the hardest game in the world to play, and the easiest to cheat at.
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
The most important shot in golf is the next one.
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the real enjoyment is the scenery.
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.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
Golf is a game where the ball lies poorly, and the players well.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.