Golf is a sport that tests your patience and is source of endless inspiration (and frustration!). 35+ golf quotes will speak to your love for the game.
- “Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.” — Arnold Palmer
- “Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.” — Bobby Jones
- “The more I practice, the luckier I get.” — Gary Player
- “You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.” — Bobby Jones
- “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
- “Golf teaches you honesty. If you cheat, you only cheat yourself.”
- “It’s not how you drive, it’s how you arrive.”
- “They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.” — Raymond Floyd
- “Golf is a good walk spoiled.” — Mark Twain
- “If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” — Jack Lemmon
- “I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.” — Gerald R. Ford
- “Golf: the only sport where the most feared opponent is your own mind.”
- “My golf game is so bad I had to have my ball retriever regripped.”
- “The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.” — Billy Graham
- “Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at.” — Jimmy Demaret
- “Grip it and rip it.”
- “Drive for show, putt for dough.”
- “Keep calm and golf on.”
- “Born to golf, forced to work.”
- “Eat. Sleep. Golf. Repeat.”
- “Hit it hard, find it, hit it again.”
- “Golf is not a game of perfect.” — Dr. Bob Rotella
- “Life’s better when you’re golfing.”
- “A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.”
- “In golf as in life, it is the follow-through that makes the difference.”
- “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.” — Arnold Palmer
- “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success… in golf and in life.”
- “Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses.” — Dr. Bob Rotella
- “You don’t know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two in your pocket.” — Lee Trevino
- “Swingin’ into the weekend like…”
- “Fore the love of the game.”
- “Green is the new black.”
- “Tee time is the best time.”
- “Chasing birdies, not deadlines.”
- “Sunshine, fresh air, and a whole lot of golf.”
- “Golf hair, don’t care.”
Golf is a game of grace, grit, and the occasional grumble. These quotes capture the many emotions golfers experience from the thrill of a perfect putt to the humility of a bunker shot gone wrong.
Every swing is a new beginning.
So grab your clubs, hit the green, and let these words guide, motivate, and entertain you all the way to the 18th hole.
