Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 28

" Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, cussedness and conversation. "
- Grantland Rice

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 29

" He is the boldest of all players. The game has never seen one like him. The epitaph on his tombstone ought to read: ' Here lies Arnold Palmer. He went for the green.' "
- Mark McCormack, Arnie: The Evolution of a Legend

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 30

" It's like playing basketball against Patrick Ewing. There is no safe shot."
- Tom Watson, on the Bay Hill course, 1993 Golf Almanac

[Stan Nehilla]

Oct 31

" If I'm playing up one fairway and I see Ben Hogan on the next fairway over and he's short of the green with his second shot, when i get to that hole I'm going to be leery of that second shot. I'll be thinking the shot may be longer than it looks, that the wind may be a little stronger than it seems. Because Ben Hogan is not going to pick the wrong club.
- Jack Burke Jr.

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 1

" Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. Nor is this to be wondered at when we consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play."
- Sir Walter Simpson

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 2

" The greatest compliment that can be paid to the architect is for players to think his artificial work is natural."
- Alister Mackenzie

[Indy Anna Jones]

" The greatest compliment that can be paid to the architect is for players to think his artificial work is natural."
- Alister Mackenzie


I really like that quote; the same can be said for us cyberdesigners as well.

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 3

During the 1944 and 1945 PGA Tour seasons, leading money winner Byron Nelson and other players were not paid in cash, but in U. S. War Bonds.

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 4

" Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."
- Winston Churchill

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 5

The par-3 12th hole at Waterville Golf Links in Ireland is called the Mass Hole, because the valley in front of the green is so deep Catholics hiding from English soldiers in the 1800s could hold a church service in the valley without being detected.