Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Dec 15

" If you happen to be a really long driver, the fact will generally be admitted without your emphasizing it, to the annoyance and even peril of your neighbors, by firing off your tee-shot the moment the parties in front of you have struck their second."
- Horace Hutchinson

[Stan Nehilla]

Dec 16

The first ladies golf club in the world was a nine-hole course constructed in 1868 at Westward Ho Golf Club in England.

[Stan Nehilla]

Dec 17

" The most exquisitely satisfying act in the world of golf is that of throwing a club."
- Henry Longhurst

[Stan Nehilla]

Dec 18

Former U.S. Army Sergeant Orville Moody developed a reputation as a good ball-striker but a lousy putter on the PGA Tour. Moody somehow managed to win the 1969 U.S. Open despite his poor putting and later went on to popularize the long putter on the Senior PGA Tour.

[Stan Nehilla]

Dec 19

" Golf is the only game in the world which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship."
- Patrick Campbell, How to Become a Scratch Golfer

[Stan Nehilla]

Dec 20

" Golf is the hardest game in the world to play and the easiest to cheat at."
- Dave Hill

[Stan Nehilla]

Dec 21

" Golf is the hardest game in the world. There's no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place."
- Ben Crenshaw, Golf Talk

[Stan Nehilla]

Dec 22

In what sponsors called " one of the world's slowest growing sports," the Port Royal Golf Club once held a Troll Tournament. It consists of throwing a golf ball around the Bermuda course. The record was set in 1975 when Joe Flynn of Needham, Massachusetts, scored an 82. Of the 25 entrants that year, only nine finished. The others complained they had thrown out their arms.

[Stan Nehilla]

Dec 23

" Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's not fun. If you take it too seriously, it breaks your heart."
- Arnold Daly

[Stan Nehilla]

Dec 24

" It is impossible to out-play an opponent you cannot out-think."
- Lawson Little

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Dec 25

The northernmost 18-hole golf course in the world is the Golfklubbur Akureyrar in Akureyri, Iceland, 50 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

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Dec 26

" Nobody wins the U. S. Open. It wins you."
- Cary Middlecoff