List of Sportspeople By Nickname - Golf

Golf

  • "Babe" = Mildred Zaharias (also known for her previous career in track and field)
  • "The Big Easy" = Ernie Els
  • "Big Mama" = JoAnne Carner
  • "Boo" = Thomas Weekley
  • "Boom-Boom" = Fred Couples
  • "The Boss of the Moss" = Loren Roberts
  • "Champagne Tony" = Tony Lema
  • "Chi-Chi" = Juan Rodríguez
  • "The Golden Bear" = Jack Nicklaus
  • "The Great White Shark" = Greg Norman
  • "The Grouch" = Pádraig Harrington
  • "Himself" = Christy O'Connor Snr
  • "Hombre Araña" (Spanish for "Spider-Man") = Camilo Villegas
  • "Hootie" = William Johnson
  • "The King" = Arnold Palmer
  • "Lefty" = Phil Mickelson
  • "Lighthorse Harry" = Harry Cooper
  • "Lord Byron" = Byron Nelson
  • "Magnificent Seven" =
    • Nancy Lopez
    • Pat Bradley
    • Amy Alcott
    • Patty Sheehan
    • Betsy King
    • Beth Daniel
    • Juli Inkster
  • "Marquis de Sod" = Pete Dye, course architect (a play on the Marquis de Sade and the perceived extreme difficulty of many of Dye's best-known designs)
  • "The Mechanic" = Miguel Ángel Jiménez
  • "The Merry Mex" = Lee Trevino (from his Mexican American heritage)
  • "Mr. X" = Miller Barber
  • "Mrs. Doubtfire" = Colin Montgomerie
  • "Monty" = Colin Montgomerie
  • "El Niño" (Spanish for "The Kid") = Sergio García
  • "Ohio Fats" = Jack Nicklaus
  • "The Pink Panther" = Paula Creamer
  • "Prince Bashful" (ハニカミ王子, Hanikami Ōji?) = Ryo Ishikawa
  • "Sandy" = Alexander Lyle
  • "Sarge" = Orville Moody
  • "Shy Prince" = Ryo Ishikawa
  • "Slammin' Sammy" = Sam Snead
  • "The Small Unit" = Chez Reavie
  • "Squire" = Gene Sarazen
  • "Tiger" = Eldrick Woods
  • "Trip" = Ernest Kuehne
  • "The Walrus" = Craig Stadler
  • "The Wee Welshman" = Ian Woosnam
  • "Woosers", "Woosie", or "Wooster" = Ian Woosnam

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Famous quotes containing the word golf:

    “My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
    —Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)

    “And the wind shall say “Here were decent godless people;
    Their only monument the asphalt road
    And a thousand lost golf balls.””
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)