Golf is a game of glory and humiliation. You can shoot a birdie on one hole and hit it onto the roof of a house on the next. They have yet to build the rollercoaster that can even remotely compare and golfers know it as these quotes show.

1. 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

2. Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. - Winston Churchill

3. It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. - Hank Aaron

4. These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. - Sam Snead

5. I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted

6. An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get worse.

7. The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. - Phyllis Diller

8. Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. - P.J. O'Rourke

9. Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. - Harry Vardon

10. Golf is not a game, it's bondage. It was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins.

11. The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. - Billy Graham

12. Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore', shoot six, and write down five. - Paul Harvey

13. Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses. - Adlai Stevenson

14. You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. - Lee Trevino

15. One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic. - Lee Trevino

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