Paige Spiranac Quotes

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

Golf is one of those games that I want my kids to know and learn so that they can play it all of their lives.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

Golf is important to me. I love the game.

I just had to get on the golf course and play holes whether it was practice or tournaments. Just keep playing. There's nothing else you can do.

I played other sports, so when I played golf, I wanted to have fun. And hitting it far is fun.

I respect the rules of the game.

Watch out for guys like Scott Piercy and Danny Willett. They both play really good on fast, fast greens.

On a real course, I'd probably want to throw my club in the water if I hit a duff shot. I'll give golf a miss - it's definitely not my sport.

I just go out and play golf.

Golf is a whole different sport, a whole different challenge, everything.

Golf has always been a passion over the years.

I don't watch much golf.

Even if you've never picked up a club, or if you've been playing for a long time, there's always something new to learn from playing golf. That's the beauty of the game. You never stop learning.

I mean, I've done college basketball, a horse race, a bunch of different things and they'd blow by but golf has a frenetic pace of bouncing around from shot to shot and green to green and, in essence, acre to acre over this huge plot of land with over 150 players who are their own team.

I'm obsessed with golf, so I love going to play golf.

When it comes to the golf industry, I know that people see me as a gimmick.

I was a pretty average golfer.

The Masters runs deep in my heart; it's a love affair that I've had since I was a little boy with that tournament, that club.

I play golf but very badly.

I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.

The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there.