Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

May 16

"I do not remember having met any golfer who did not consider himself on the whole a remarkedly unlucky one."
- Horace Hutchinson

[Stan Nehilla]

May 17

"I don't trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problem."
- Seve Ballesteros, Seve: The Young Champion

[Stan Nehilla]

May 18

"There are fourteen clubs in a full golfing set, but this does not mean - as some golfers seem to think - that you must have fourteen different swings."
- John Jacobs, Play Better Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

May 19

In the Pioneer Pass Golf Challenge, played through 27 miles of high desert terrain between Big Bear and Yucca Valley in California, golfers are allowed to move a ball six club lengths to avoid rattlesnakes. The tournament began as a way to promote building a road, which was never built.

[SteveHorn]

NOW THATS A TRUE HAZARD.

[Stan Nehilla]

May 20

"A golfer's swing is often made for good or bad in the first week of his experience."
- Harry Vardon

[Stan Nehilla]

May 21

"The reason the Road Hole is the greatest par-4 in the world is because it's a par-5."
- Ben Crenshaw, on the 17th hole at St. Andrews

[Stan Nehilla]

May 22

"While, on the whole, playing through the green is the part of the game most trying to the temper, putting is the most trying to the nerves."
- A. J. Balfour

[Stan Nehilla]

May 23

Once, while giving a clinic to a group of college golfers, Byron Nelson was asked, "How close can you , or should you, stand to the ball at address?" Nelson replied, "Son, you can't stand too close to the ball." Jack Nicklaus would say essentially the same thing when asked the question. "I've seen a lot of amateur golfers move farther away from the ball at address," Nicklaus said, "but I've never seen one move closer to it."

[Stan Nehilla]

May 24

"Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap."
- Bobby Nichols