Richard Armour Quotes

I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled greenly up at the azure sky.

Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

Golf course design is exciting.

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

I love putting. I love to practice my short game.

I just love when I'm playing Northumberland and I'm on the back nine and I see the water and the link bridge.

I can't putt. The reasons are infinite. When lining up a putt, I can't remember if the ball always breaks to the ocean or to the valley or away from Pinnacle Peak. And because I took up the game in Minnesota, in what is often called Middle America, I also grew up asking, 'To which ocean does it break?'

I love to be at Topeka Country Club. It's where I grew up. That's one course I'd play every day.

I'm a big fan of grass. It definitely suits my game.

I want to play golf, practice and not do much else. I don't drink, I don't smoke and I hate going places where you have to yell at someone who is about a foot away from you.

I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.

Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.

Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

I can sum it up like this: Thank God for the game of golf.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.