Golfing Idioms and Quotes

[tdinneen]

I recently read a nice golfing term called a DeVito for tricky little 5 footers Any other essential golfing diction I should know about.

Also, if anyone has good quotes as well. I like these

"Golf is a good walk ruined." - Mark Twain
“If you’re 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

[royalwulff]

"The more I practice, the luckier I get." Gary Player

[mngolfer]

tdinneen I like the Devito one!

[Warik]

A quote I shared with my friend a few days ago, as he was preparing to hit over a lake: "You can either hit one more club or one more ball."

He ended up hitting two more balls. =)

[iacas]

I've always liked, by way of insult to a friend, "your problem is that you're standing too close to the ball.......... after you hit it."

[philipy]

When a put lips or rims out, I've heard it called a Lewinsky.

[Warik]

After a playing partner hits a bad shot: "Don't worry - it happens to the best of us..... and you."

[The Rambler]

"looks like you got a Sadaam there pal" = a shot buried in a trap

[Scratch-Hopeful]

"Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour." ~Author Unknown

[ERichardson]

"The person with the fastest golf cart will always have the best lie."

[Shindig]

A "Ted Kennedy" is when you fail to drive it over the water.

Your friends' scores are usually aardvarks - bizarre beyond belief. Unlike some other animals, these aren't predefined.

If you beat someone to death with a golf club, and the policeman asks you how many times you hit him, give an honest answer, and then ask that he puts you down for one fewer.

Any nasty slice can be attributed to O.J. Simpson

[lamebums]

Technological improvement over the caddy: the golf cart. It can't count or critisize.

You can hit a two-inch branch 90 percent of the time, and a two-acre fairway 10 percent of the time.

New balls from their sleeves tend to follow one another - out of bounds.

[RyanR]

My boss and the coach at Western Illinois University told me one time, "It's not the arrows in the quiver, it's the indian shooting the bow."

The only other ones I can think of are a couple things my grandpa says all the time.

"It's a dumb game, but I love it" and if I hit a putt way short, he says "Hit the ball, Sally!" or if I'm way long he says "Whoa, Dolly!"

Good post!
Ryan

[Shindig]

"It's a dumb game, but I love it" and if I hit a putt way short, he says "Hit the ball, Sally!" or if I'm way long he says "Whoa, Dolly!"

We have a similar expression in my groups, only we use the name "Alice." After a bad and short shot, we can preempt the teasing and prevent it by saying something to the effect of, "that was a great shot; my husband would be proud."

[Gregormendel]

If a golfer chooses to compete, he must choose to believe he can win. Winners and Losers in life are completely self determined, but only the winners are willing to admit it.

The correlation between thinking well and making successful shots is not 100 percent. But the correlation between thinking poorly and unsuccessful shots id much higher.

A person with great dreams can achieve great things. A person with small dreams, or a person without the confidence to persue his or her dreams has consigned himself to a life of frustration and mediocrity.

No matter what happens when you hit a shot, accept it. Acceptance is the last step in a sound routine.

[smlxl]

It is more important to be decisive than to be correct when preparing to play any golf shot, particularly a putt.

- Bob Rotella

When I ask you to take an aspirin, please don't take the whole bottle.

- Harvey Penick on integrating swing changes

And pretty much every golfer/writer has shared the same directive to "play to a specific target". Mr. Penick says it best:

Take dead aim.

[Norm66]

I was golfing with a guy I was trying to impress in the work arena a couple weeks ago (must not have worked BTW) and hit a bad shot on a 150 yard par-3. He was going to try and console me and asked, "Well Norm, you know what they say?" I responded, "f&*$ing Golf". Crude, but it got tons of laughs.

[outrider2288]

"Stop trying to hit the ball, and hit the ball"
my golf coach