Wit & Wisdom of Golf

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Jun 17
Playing an evening match with Ed Winter in 1964 at Roehampton Golf Course in England, Bill Carey hit his tee shot at the 7th and felt it was pretty close to the hole. As the sun was about to set, both golfers searched in vain for the ball as it became dark. Unable to locate it, Carey conceded the hole. Then it dawned on him to look in the cup and, sure enough, there was the ball. Bill Carey had made a hole-in-one – but still lost the hole.

[Stan Nehilla]

Jun 18

"My best score ever is 103. But I've only been playing 15 years."
- Alex Karras

[Stan Nehilla]

Jun 19

One of the classes four-time U. S. Women's Open winner Mickey Wright took while in college was golf and her final grade was a D. Admitting to being a bit of a smart aleck, Wright said she probably deserved the low mark she was given by Mrs. Brown.

[Stan Nehilla]

June 20

It wasn't my fault. Blame the guys in the foursome in front of me."
- Pro Football player Lawrence Taylor, on being late for practice.

[Stan Nehilla]

Jun 21

"Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake that caused the bad shot."
- Harvey Penick, The Best of Harvey Penick's Little Red Book

[Stan Nehilla]

Jun 22

In 1939, temperamental baseball star Ty Cobb, playing at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, lost a match to 12-year-old Bob Rosberg. Humiliated, Cobb never returned to The Olympic Club. In 1959, Rosberg won the PGA Championship.

[Stan Nehilla]

Jun 23

"They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke."
- P. G. Wodehouse

[Stan Nehilla]

Jun 24

"Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world in which to be bad."
- A. A. Milne

[Stan Nehilla]

Jun 25

In 1941, future LPGA Hall of Famer and founder Patty Berg broke her left leg and kneecap in a head-on automobile accident. She regained her strength in her legs by working with a boxer and later by enlisting in the U. S. Marine Corps. Berg became one of the longest hitters in women's golf.

[Stan Nehilla]

Jun 26

"However unlucky you may be, it really is not fair to expect your adversary's grief for your undeserved misfortunes to be as poignant as your own."
- Horace Hutchinson