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Great Quotes From Frustrated Golfers

Golf is a game of glory and humiliation. You can shoot a birdie on one hole and hit it onto the roof of a house on the next. They have yet to build the rollercoaster that can even remotely compare and golfers know it as these quotes show.

By Aazdak Alisimo

Golf is a game of glory and humiliation. You can shoot a birdie on one hole and hit it onto the roof of a house on the next. They have yet to build the rollercoaster that can even remotely compare and golfers know it as these quotes show.

1. 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. - Lee Trevino

2. 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. - Winston Churchill

3. It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. - Hank Aaron

4. 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. - Tiger Woods

5. Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it’s called the PGA Tour. - Unknown

6. When you start driving your ball down the middle, you meet a different class of people. - Phil Harris

7. The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing. - Phyllis Diller

8. Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle.

9. Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. - Harry Vardon

10. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. - Dave Barry

11. There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls. - Lee Trevino

12. I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. - Gerald Ford

13. How can they beat me? I’ve been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice. - Lee Trevino

14. The harder you work, the luckier you get. - Gary Player

15. One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic. - Lee Trevino

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