Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 19

If your playing golf in Japan, chances are pretty good you won't run into someone using a golf ball with the number 4 on it. That's a bad-luck number for the Japanese, and they do not manufacture any for the locals. Instead, a dozen Japanese balls are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 7.

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 20

"Three things are as unfathomable as they are fascinating to the masculine mind: metaphysics, golf and the feminine heart."
- - Arnold Haultain

[DC#1]

I guess they don't carry a 4 wood or iron either.

[Indy Anna Jones]

Do they call it "gorf" in Japan?

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 21

"That's a bagful of indecision."
- - Jackie Burke, when Arnold Palmer brought eight putters to the practice green.

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 22

"Golf is fully as companionable an amusement as it can be a solitary one."
- - Bernard Darwin

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 23

Actor Sean Connery hated golf until he was forced to learn to swing for a role in the James Bond film Goldfinger.Connery quickly became hooked on the game and has played for more than 30 years at the great golf courses in his native Scotland.

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 24

"You need a doctorate degree to putt at Augusta National."
- - Johnny Miller

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 25

"In wellnigh every golf match which is at all close, there is almost inevitably one notable turning point, a crisis at which the golfing quality is put to its severest test."
- - Horace Hutchinson

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 26

"He came from nowhere and he went back there."
- - Anonymous, of 1935 Open Champion Alf Perry