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Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf
Posted: October 8th, 2011, 5:14 am
by 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
Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf
Posted: October 9th, 2011, 4:49 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 9
" The answer to Hogan is, I fancy, that if Hogan means to win, you lose."
- Henry Longhurst, on Ben Hogan
Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf
Posted: October 10th, 2011, 5:13 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 10
" I don't care to join any club that's prepared to have me as a member."
- Groucho Marx
Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf
Posted: October 11th, 2011, 6:07 am
by 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
Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf
Posted: October 12th, 2011, 4:17 am
by 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
Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf
Posted: October 13th, 2011, 4:58 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 13
" Golf : A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood."
- Samuel Johnson
Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf
Posted: October 14th, 2011, 4:43 am
by 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
Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf
Posted: October 15th, 2011, 4:57 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 15
" The back is not made to do the things we do. The only thing worse is rodeo."
- Fred Couples
Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf
Posted: October 16th, 2011, 5:15 am
by 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
Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf
Posted: October 17th, 2011, 4:57 am
by 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