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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.Dave Barry
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Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.James Ross
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If you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!Tiger Woods
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I have spent my entire lifetime trying to figure out how to connect work and passion. When I finally figured it out, life became so much more beautiful!Colleen Ferrary Bader
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When I was 15, a well off man told me the secret to success was golf. It took me until I became 30 to realize it was the true. Today, you couldn't convince me otherwise.Colleen Ferrary Bader
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Golf sits in that beautiful junction between perfection and frustration.Colleen Ferrary Bader
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Stocks are also like Golf; while you are sure to hit a birdie, eagle, albatross, you wind up hitting one or two over par!Sandeep Sahajpal
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There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.J.R. Rim
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Consider the value of doing what you love and being paid for it! This is truly a golfer’s dream.Lorii Myers
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I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that’s the attitude of a young person who hasn’t a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.Arnold Palmer
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TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee.John Updike
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The mornings came hard, and our caddie master, Dick Millweed, had a temper that could make a hangover seem like a seismic fracture. He was a small man with a soft, friendly voice. He was not intimidating at all, until he lost it. In his defense, he took shit from all sides - from the members who wanted their favorite caddie and their preferred tee time, from the golf staff who wanted him to perform a million menial duties, and from us when we showed up bleary eyed and incoherent and sometimes didn't show up at all. And God forbid a caddie should stumble in late, because then Millweed's lips would begin to tremble and his blue eyes would explode from his head. They grew as large as saucers and shook as though his skull was suffering earthquake. And he appeared to grow with them. It was like some shaman or yogi trick. Pound for pound, I've never met anyone else who could so effectively deliver anger. He would yell, "You like fucking with me, don't you? You like making me look bad! You wake up and say, 'Today I'm gonna fuck with Millweed! ' and it makes you happy, doesn't it?" And we had no choice but to stand there and take it - hang our heads and blubber apologies and promise never to be hung over again, never to show up late again, because he held the ultimate trump card _ he could fire us and cut us off from the golden tit. But once we were out on the course walking it off, the hanover and any cares associated with it (including Millweed) evaporated into the light mountain air. And after the round, with our pockets replenished and our spirits restored by the carefree, self-congratulatory ebullience of the uberrich, we were powerless to resist the siren song of clinking glasses, the inviting golden light of the street lamps and tavern windows in town, and the slopeside hot tubs steaming under the stars. We all jumped ship and dined, danced, and romanced the night away and then were dashed against the rocks of Millweed's wrath all over again the next morning. .Unknown
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Light is found on the green.J.R. Rim
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A good golfer’s métier is his or her golfing skill. A great golfer’s métier is his or her golfing skill, coupled with the mastery of good sportsmanship, rendering him or her an ambassador for the sport.Lorii Myers
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You must be grounded to take flight.Lorii Myers
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An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.Lorii Myers
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The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.Mike Bove
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Put some action on your good intentions!Lorii Myers
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I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.Gerald R. Ford
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Excuse me, I must go and puttP.g. Wodehouse
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…golf was no longer the most interesting sport to the corporate czars because they found playing with natural balls much more satisfying.Pawan Mishra
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After missing the cut at the 1957 Masters because of poor putting, Hogan retired to the clubhouse and suggested that putting should no longer be a part of the game. “If I had my way, ” Hogan grumbled, “every golf green would be made into a huge funnel. You hit the funnel and the ball would roll down a pipe into the hole. I’ve always considered that golf is one game, ” Hogan added, “and putting another. .Jim Hawkins
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Father, I can’t take this, ” I said. “Why not?” “Because you’re a priest, Father.” “And my money’s no good because of it? What are you? A member of the Masonic Lodge?” “Naw, Father, ” I said. “I just feel guilty taking money from you.” “Well, you’re Irish and Jewish. You have to feel guilty over somethin’, don’t ya? Take the money and be happy ye have it.John William Tuohy
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Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.Tiger Woods
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True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!Lorii Myers
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ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.Anthony Liccione
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.Hank Aaron
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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
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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
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You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.Mike Weir
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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.Tiger Woods
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I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.Jack Nicklaus
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.Nancy Gibbs
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I don't want to be just known for the way I dress. I want to be known for how I play, how I treat people, and how I am as a role model. I don't just want to be, 'He dresses cool' or 'He dresses crazy.' You're going to have lovers and haters. I want my golf game to be the main thing.Rickie Fowler
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To find a man's true character, play golf with him.P. G. Wodehouse
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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.Mark Twain
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If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.Bob Hope
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Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.Tiger Woods
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.Ernest Hemingway
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The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.Billy Graham
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I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.Matthew McConaughey
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.William Wordsworth
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.Sam Snead
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.H. G. Wells
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The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.Dan Jenkins
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.Jack Nicklaus
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Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.Roger Kahn
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Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.Harry Vardon
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I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.Dan Jenkins
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You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.Victoria Pendleton
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Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.Arnold Palmer
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Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.Lindsey Vonn
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If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.Bob Seger
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Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.Nancy Lopez
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You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.Rory McIlroy
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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.Nursultan Nazarbayev
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Owning a great golf course gives you great power.Donald Trump
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For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.Larry Fitzgerald
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.Bernie Mac
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If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.Lee Trevino
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You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.Angel Cabrera
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With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.Mario Andretti
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But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.Bill Murray
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I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.Paul Michael Glaser
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You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.Donald Trump
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When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.Zach Johnson
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.Jack Nicklaus
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Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.Jack Nicklaus
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.Dan Jenkins
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.Jack Nicklaus
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If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.Jack Nicklaus
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I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my i Pad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.Jane Seymour
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Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see people's big green lawns. And you live in a desert! I've always remarked about the capacity of human beings to look at somewhere and move there because of its uniqueness and its beauty and then change it.Philippe Cousteau
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Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.Michael Phelps
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You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.Jello Biafra
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.P. G. Wodehouse
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Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.Matthew Goode
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BLT Prime at Trump National Doral is essential after a long day on the golf course. The popover bread alone is enough to keep me coming back!Ivanka Trump
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The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.Jon Stewart
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My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.Ronnie OSullivan
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.Bertrand Russell