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41 " Nothing distresses the civilized person like unfettered nature. The Grand Canyon seen from behind the railing is indeed a splendid sight, but as soon as the desert reclaims your golf course that is another matter altogether. "
― Anthony Marais
42 " It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course. "
― Hank Aaron
43 " We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again. "
― , Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
44 " It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. "
― Mark Twain
45 " The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the President on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm. "
― Christopher Hitchens , Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
46 " How, exactly, did I kill him? He died on the golf course.” One minute he’d been practicing his swing, and in the next—phzzt—a freak lightning bolt had hit him right in the nine iron. His shoes were still smoking when she reached him. "
47 " I used to play golf, but found it did not give me vitality because it's a slothful game...Nine holes of golf will take you one and a half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.-Hard truths to keep Singapore going (2011) "
48 " The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres. "
― Ian Fleming , Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
49 " Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. "
50 " Anytime you play golf for whatever you've got that's pressure. I'd like to see H.L. Hunt go out there and play for $3 billion. "
51 " I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me. "
52 " Like swimming riding writing or playing golf happiness can be learned. "
53 " You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it. "
54 " As a woman I resent the fact that in golf if I have the highest score I'm the loser. "
55 " My golf has really improved even though my score hasn't. I'm missing the ball much closer now. "
56 " By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball he can't hit that far. "
57 " My golf is getting better all the time. Today I parred all but sixteen holes. "
58 " I don't say my golf game is bad but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced. "
59 " If people focused on life's really important matters there'd be a shortage of golf clubs. "
