Golf Sayings 🏌️‍♂️ in 2025

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.

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of the futility of the human effort.

If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

“Play it as it lies” is one of the fundamental dictates of golf. The other is “Wear it if it clashes.”

When you hear someone shout “You da man,” if he ain’t shouting at Arnold Palmer, then it ain’t da man.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place in this world is when one is playing golf.

Many a golfer prefers a golf cart to a caddy because the cart cannot count, criticize or laugh.