Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Jan 31

Playing at the Guam Navy Golf Club on January 3, 1982, after a typhoon had just past , Chief Petty Officer Kevin Murray had a 40-mph wind to deal with, and it certainly helped him on the 647 - yard par 5. Hitting on a hard fairway with the wind at his back, his drive was later measured at 387 yards. Then Kevin hit a 4-iron, which bounced and rolled about 20 yards before falling into the cup for the longest double-eagle (albatross) ever recorded.

[SteveHorn]

WOW! A 647 par 5 back in 1982. By todays standards it would be closer to 747 yards.

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 1

"I'm only scared of three things: lightning, a sidehill putt, and Ben Hogan."
- - Sam Snead

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 2

"The professional, as we are now chiefly acquainted with him, is a feckless, reckless creature. In the golfing season in Scotland he makes his money all the day, and spends it all the night. His sole loves are golf and whiskey."
- - Horace Hutchinson - 1903.

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 3

Tiger Woods made his first national television appearance at age 2 on The Mike Douglas Show. Woods and fellow guest Bob Hope had a putting contest, which the youngster won.

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 4

"I never pray on the golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere but on the course."
- - Rev Billy Graham

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 5

"Shall the married man play golf? This admits of no argument. Certainly. Of all the plagues to a woman in the house is a man during the day."
- - Dr. Proudfoot - 1890

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 6

"The good golfer feels his swing as all one piece."
- - Percy Boomer - The Complete Golfer

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 7

Bing Crosby joked about his golf game, but the performer was an excellent player who won club championships at Lakewood Country Club near Los Angeles, and even played in the US Amateur Championship.

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 8

"If you find your adversary complaining to an intolerable degree of your good luck and his own is bad, it is a satisfaction to bear in mind that, though you have no remedy in the present, in the future you have a very adequate one -- never to play with him again."
- - Horace Hutchinson