Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Mar 22

"I try to use a method I call the positive-negative approach. I positively identify the negatives and work from there."
- Bob Murphy

[Stan Nehilla]

Mar 23

"Show me a golfer who walks away calmly after topping a drive or missing a kick-in putt, and I'll show you one who is going to lose."
- Sam Snead, At Random Through the Green

[sandwedge]

Is this the reason he was known as "Slammin Sammy"?

Stan - thanks for posting these

[Stan Nehilla]

Mar 24

"One of the greatest pleasures in golf - - I can think of nothing that truly compares with it unless it is watching a well-played shot streak for the flag - - is the sensation a golfer experiences at the instant he contacts the ball flush and correctly."
- Ben Hogan , Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals Of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Mar 25

"Golf is not a funeral, though both can be very sad affairs."
- Bernard Darwin

[Stan Nehilla]

Mar 26

"Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt."
- Jim Bishop

[Stan Nehilla]

Mar 27

At age 14, an English youngster named Nick Faldo saw Jack Nicklaus win the Masters on television and decided to give golf a try. Faldo went on to win three Masters titles and became the No. 1 player in the world.

[Stan Nehilla]

Mar 28

"Some putters, like drawing-room monstrosities of green china, appear only valuable for their surpassing ugliness; some have a strange affinity to the gnarled root of a primeval oak; some are certainly heirlooms of a century's respectability."
- H. B. Farnie

[Stan Nehilla]

March 29

"Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilization."
- Andrew Carnegie

[Stan Nehilla]

Mar 30

An ancient cemetery runs along the right side of the first hole at Ballybunion Golf Club in Ireland. The cemetery is not only considered out of bounds, but players may not retrieve a ball hit among the headstones.