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Golf is a game of endless complexity that has both captivated and frustrated those that play it for hundreds of years.

The sport offers up plenty to talk about and, over the years, many a true word has been spoken about the game.

In this blog, we trawl through some of the most inspiring (and at times, humourous) golf quotes to have enriched the game.

 

Our top 20 golf quotes

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“The most important shot in golf is the next one.”
– Ben Hogan

Hogan was a man of few words, but he certainly chose them wisely. He is widely regarded as one of the finest ever exponents of the game, and this famous quote portrays that perfectly.

 

“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

Churchill was known for his witty observations, and this one neatly sums up how all amateurs feel about golf from time to time.

 

“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
– William Wordsworth

The great poet probably preferred daffodils to mown fairways, but very few golf quotes encapsulate the sport’s distinct combination of physical exertion and leisurely relaxation quite like this one.

 

“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

Lee Trevino was actually struck by lightning on the golf course when sheltering from a storm under an umbrella at the 1975 Western Open. This quote came in response to a question on what he would do if he were ever caught in such a situation again.

 

“Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a grateful result.”
– Tommy Armour

Tommy Armour was a Scottish professional golfer who won the 1931 Open Championship, so he could clearly contort his body rather effectively.

 

“To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.”
– P.G. Wodehouse

Wodehouse frequently included golf in his humorous writings and was a keen player himself.

 

“They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.”
– Ray Floyd

Ray Floyd can’t cuss at golf too much, as he has won 65 tournaments as a professional, including four Majors.

 

“The more I practice, the luckier I get.”
– Gary Player

The Black Knight is known as one of the most determined and dedicated golf professionals of all time.

 

“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.”
– Sam Snead

Snead was a famously natural player with exceptional sporting aptitude. Clearly, he never gripped a knife and fork the way he did his golf club.

 

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
– Mark Twain

We’ve all agreed with the creator of Huck Finn on occasion as we’ve staggered off the 18th green.

 

“Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.”
– A.A Milne

The Winnie the Pooh author once played off a handicap of nine. Not so bad!

 

“If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.”
– Dean Martin

The legendary crooner loved golf—he even had his own line of golf balls (Dinos) and a PGA Tour event called The Dean Martin Tuscon Open!

 

“If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. But if you work at it, it’s golf”
– Bob Hope

Bob Hope is perhaps the most famous celebrity golfer of all time. In fact, he did so much for the game that he was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame.

 

“Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.”
– P.G. Wodehouse

Another accurate golfing observation from the creator of Jeeves and Wooster here.

 

“Golf is a fascinating game. I’ve taken nearly 40 years to discover that I can’t play it.”
– Ted Ray

A spot of unfounded self-deprecation here. Ray won 46 professional tournaments, including the 1912 Open and the 1920 US Open.

 

“They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.”
– Gardner Dickinson

The seven-time PGA Tour winner encapsulated the sport’s bamboozling complexity with this famous line.

 

“If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don’t have to waste energy going back to pick it up.”
– Tommy Bolt

Tour professional Tommy Bolt was known for his fiery temper on the course.

 

“I’d give up golf if I didn’t have so many sweaters.”
– Bob Hope

Hope was known for sporting stereotypical golfing attire, including classic sweaters (or jumpers, as we call them…)

 

“Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn’t float too well.”
– Craig Stadler

“The Walrus” was prone to the odd fit of pique on the golf course.

 

“Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.”
– Harry Vardon

When Vardon was at his peak around the turn of the 20th century, it was common for professional tournaments to feature 36 holes in a day!

 

 

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]]> Famous architect kicks off new clifftop golf course in Washington https://golf.vmondeika.com/famous-architect-kicks-off-new-clifftop-golf-course-in-washington/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:34:35 +0000 https://golf.vmondeika.com/famous-architect-kicks-off-new-clifftop-golf-course-in-washington/

David McLay Kidd has been blessed by cliffs. The golf architect got his lucky break in the 1990s as a 20-something dreamer building atop prime precipices overlooking the Pacific Ocean at what would become the original course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon. Since, he has built highly rated clifftop layouts such as Gamble Sands (and its new sister course, Scarecrow) in Washington, the Castle Course at St. Andrews in Scotland, even the recently opened Loraloma in Texas. 

“Building on clifftops overlooking water sure has worked out well for me,” the Scotsman said. “Cliffs, sandy ground, really good clients – those are key ingredients, right?”

Kidd said he has all three again for a newly announced project: the in-development River Ranch Golf Resort in Pasco, Washington. Located in the southern stretches of the state, closer to Idaho than the ocean, the public-access River Ranch will sit above the Snake River not far from its confluence with the Columbia River. The cliffs at River Ranch rise some 40 to 60 feet above the river, and there’s plenty of elevation changes within the bounds of the planned course. Nine holes will play predominantly along the cliffs, Kidd said.

Kidd’s team, including design partner Nick Schaan, has worked through the winter to begin shaping on five holes. Kidd said the plan is to start grassing holes in April and to finish that task in October, then to complete all the bunkering in the summer of 2027. Preview play will follow, with the course potentially opening fully in the fall of 2027 or the spring of 2028. 

The site was once home to the Gordon Estate Winery, but in working with golf operator KemperSports and a four-person ownership team new to golf, Kidd plans to build 18 holes (at least, more on that later) that take advantage of a dramatic 320 or so acres. The site features abrupt elevation changes, long views and the kind of firm, sandy soils on which Kidd loves to build golf holes that cater to the ground game. 

“It’s even better than it looks in the photos,” Kidd said, “and it looks pretty good in the photos.”

After the winery was shuttered in 2020, the land was purchased by a group that includes Keith Tiegs, whose family owns one of the largest farming operations in the Pacific Northwest. The family is known for its potatoes and other crops that appear in pretty much every supermarket and plenty of restaurants in the United States. Tiegs and his new partners in this property had a thought, Kidd said: This land is too good for potatoes and houses, so what would golf look like here? 

Kidd, who lives in Oregon, hit a home run in building the two 18-hole courses plus a tremendous short course at Gamble Sands – also on cliffs, also owned by a family of farmers  – and the new partnership group was made up of golfing fans of his work. They approached Kidd, and he jumped at the opportunity to build on the cliffs above the Snake River. He advised the ownership group to bring in KemperSports, the owner and operator of golf courses for whom Kidd has just finished building a new course at the popular Streamsong Resort in Florida. 

“These are smart guys, very smart guys, and they did everything perfectly,” Kidd said. He intends to deliver on his end by adding yet another must-see destination layout in the great expanses of the Pacific Northwest, a region that Kidd said mimics the weather of his native Scotland but that is still somewhat underserved as far as great golf courses. 

“The Pacific Northwest is the only region of the continental U.S. that approximates the same weather as the United Kingdom, right?” Kidd said. “The Northeast doesn’t do it – it’s freezing cold in the winter. So the Pacific Northwest is the closest thing we have here to the United Kingdom. And yet you could count the top-100 courses on one hand, in an area that’s 10 times bigger than the United Kingdom. It’s time for more courses.”

River Ranch will be a resort, with plans for four-bedroom cottages in the beginning and possible expansions to come if the first course proves successful. Asked if there’s a chance to expand the golf offering beyond 18 holes, Kidd laughed and said, “The Tiegs have plenty of great land, so you never know.” Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keiser has famously said that one golf course is a golf course but that two courses is a destination, and that thought could serve as inspiration for River Ranch. 

Kidd explained that the countryside around Pasco was once the wintering grounds for tribes of Native Americans. It doesn’t snow too much, and golf will be possible 12 months a year with intermittent days possibly lost to frost. The site, some 150 miles south of Gamble Sands, also is within reasonable driving distance of Seattle, Bend in Oregon, and Spokane and Boise in Idaho. The highly rated Wine Valley Golf Club, designed by Dan Hixson, is less than an hour away in Walla Walla, Washington.

It’s very possible that the addition of River Ranch will boost the tide that lifts all boats, as far as developing this patch of the Pacific Northwest as a national and even international golf destination. At River Ranch, it all starts with the cliffs, just as it did for Kidd. All the converging and sweeping lines on the site’s topographic map don’t hurt, either. 

The course will begin on high ground, the front nine looping roughly clockwise to the north, dropping from above cliffs to a lower bench closer to the river. The back nine will loop counter-clockwise to the south, finishing with a long stretch atop the cliffs that includes the par-4 18th that parallels the river below. Kidd was particularly excited to describe the par-3 15th, which will play across the cliffs to a green located on a point above the water. 

Kidd plans to spend extra time on the micro-contours within the site, editing the rollicking ground until it allows a golf ball to roll and roll. He said the ownership group is open to experimentation on the granular level, allowing for creativity, especially with the green sites. He hinted that the greens at River Ranch might not be quite as welcoming to middling or poor approach shots as at some of his recent course designs, but as long as the ball can be found, Kidd said he is onboard. Don’t count on an overly penal layout, either – playability is baked into the DNA of all his recent courses. It’s all about making the most of what the ground offers.

“This has some really good terrain,” Kidd said. “There are parts that are pretty aggressive. … This is the kind of site that golf architects dream of. I mean, at least I do. There’s just aren’t that many sites like this, and I’ve been lucky to have a few. It’s just really cool.”

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