Putting Green Quotes

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.

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

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.

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

I enjoy playing it every time I step on the course.

That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.

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?"

Miss a putt for $2,000? Not likely!

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

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.

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

To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

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

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.

You can only play one hole at a time.

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.

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

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

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.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

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

Here Eddie, hold the flag while I putt out.