"Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance." - Alistair Cooke

"Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes." - Gene Littler

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out." - Paul Gallico

"This summer I tried to take up golf, after many years of avoiding that particular temptation to blasphemy." - Paul Moore (Episcopal Bishop of NY)

"Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable." - A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick) Herbert (British author, politician)

"Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture." - Winston Churchill

"The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism." - Charles Blair Macdonald (golf course architect)

"The first thing a television viewer realizes when watching a golf tournament is how the sport tends to make one inclined to whisper and avoid sudden movements, such as walking to the refrigerator [during] a possible birdie putt." - Peter Alfano

"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

"If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon

"It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus." - Jack Nicklaus

"Golf courses are the best place to observe ministers, but none of them are above cheating a bit." - John D Rockefeller

"Golf is a good walk spoiled." - Mark Twain