Golf Sayings 🏌️‍♂️ in 2025

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

When it’s breezy, hit it easy.

A “gimme” can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers, neither of whom can putt very well.

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.

Through years of experience, I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

When I die, bury me on the course so my husband will visit.

the most important shot in golf is the next one.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks – No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard’s excellent Tennis for Beginners

May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

Golf is a game where the ball always lies poorly and the player always lies well.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

Jack Nicklaus, on why he tees his ball high

I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.