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Nov 16

" Old Tom is the most remote point to which we can carry back our genealogical inquiries into the golfing style, so that we may virtually accept him as the common golfing ancestor who has stamped the features of his style most distinctly on his descendants. "
- Horace Hutchinson, on Old Tom Morris

Nov 17

Lee Elder was the first African-American golfer to play in the Masters. He qualified by winning the 1974 Monsanto (Pensacola) Open.

Nov 18

" Golf architecture is an art closely aligned to that of the artist or sculptor, but also necessitating a scientific knowledge of many other subjects.
- Alister Mackenzie

Nov 19

" When a putter is waiting his turn to hole out a putt of one or two feet in length, on which the match hangs at the last hole, it is of vital importance that he think of nothing."
- Sir Walter Simpson

Nov 20

" A tolerable day, a tolerable green, a tolerable opponent, supply, or ought to supply, all that any reasonably constituted human being should require in the way of entertainment."
- A. J. Balfour

Nov 21

" When he gets the ball into a rough place, that's when he's most relaxed. I think it's because he has so much experience at it."
- Don Christopher, Jack Lemmon's caddie

Nov 22

Byron Nelson won 11 consecutive PGA Tour tournaments in 1945 - - the most unbreakable record in all of sports.

Nov 23

" It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf."
- Robert Lynd

Byron Nelson won 11 consecutive PGA Tour tournaments in 1945 - - the most unbreakable record in all of sports.

Not only that, he won a total of 18 tournaments that year. In total, he made around $63,000 which he used to buy his ranch, to which he retired the following year. Nothing left to accomplish I guess.

Nov 24

" I saw a course you'd really like, Trent. On the 1st tee, you take a drop."
- Jimmy Demaret, to course architect Robert Trent Jones