Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 9

"Golf is a game where guts, stick-to-itivness, and blind devotion will get you nothing but an ulcer."
- - Tommy Bolt

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 10

When Gary Player first went to the Open in 1955 at the Old Course at St, Andrews, he couldn't afford a hotel. The future three-time Open winner slept in the bunkers of the course near the sea.

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 11

"You can play a damned good shot and find the ball in a damned bad place."
- - George Duncan, on St. Andrews

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 12

"Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him."
- - Walter Hagen

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 13

Modern golf really became popular in the 1950s because President Eisenhower loved the game, and because tournaments on TV showed the world a golfer named Arnold Palmer.

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 14

"Give me golf clubs, the fresh air, and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the golf clubs and fresh air."
- - Jack Benny

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 15

On February 15, 1995, President Bill Clinton became the first sitting president to play in a PGA Tour event when he played in the first round of the Bob Hope Classic pro-am. The famous fivesome included Hope, professional Scott Hoch, former President Gerald Ford, and former President George H. W. Bush, whom Clinton had defeated for the presidency just 26 months earlier.

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 16

"This course is 90 percent horse manure and 10 percent luck."
- - J C Snead, on TPC Sawgrass, Bury Me in a Pot Bunker

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 17

"My favourite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt."
- - Lord Robertson

[Stan Nehilla]

Feb 18

"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."
- - John Updike