Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 8

" The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."
- George Deukmejian, former governor of California

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 9

" The answer to Hogan is, I fancy, that if Hogan means to win, you lose."
- Henry Longhurst, on Ben Hogan

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 10

" I don't care to join any club that's prepared to have me as a member."
- Groucho Marx

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 11

" When you hear a golfer enlarging upon the cruel ill-treatment which his ball suffered after ' one of the finest shots that was ever played,' you need not hastily conclude that the stroke was one of any really transcendent merit."
- Horace Hutchinson

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 12

" Never bet with anyone you meet on the 1st tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag and squinty eyes."
- Dave Marr

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 13

" Golf : A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood."
- Samuel Johnson

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 14

" One very simple tip will infinitely improve the timing of most golfers. Merely pause briefly at the top of the backswing."
- Tommy Armour, How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 15

" The back is not made to do the things we do. The only thing worse is rodeo."
- Fred Couples

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 16

" The more I studied the Old Course the more I loved it ; and the more I loved it, the more I studied it."
- Bobby Jones, on St. Andrews

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 17

" Years ago we discovered the exact midpoint, the dead canter, of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. "
_ Franklin P. Adams, Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations