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Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: April 21st, 2011, 3:11 am
by Stan Nehilla
Apr 21

"A lot more people beat me now."
-Dwight Eisenhower, On how his game changed after his presidency

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: April 22nd, 2011, 3:08 am
by Stan Nehilla
Apr 22

"It's Star Wars golf. The place was designed by Darth Vader."
-Ben Crenshaw, on the Tournament Players Club at Sawgrass, Bury Me in a Pot Bunker

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: April 22nd, 2011, 9:08 am
by SteveHorn
I really like Darth's work. Does anyone know what other courses are Vader designs :laugh:

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: April 22nd, 2011, 10:43 am
by Indy Anna Jones
Yes Steve. He designed for us under the name "SMAK2000."

(Seriously, I like a lot of his courses, but they are definitely from the "dark side."

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: April 23rd, 2011, 1:23 am
by Stan Nehilla
Apr 23

"It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through."
-Bernard Darwin, Playing the Like

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: April 23rd, 2011, 11:53 pm
by Stan Nehilla
Apr 24

Sam Snead was asked to list the 10 greatest golfers of all time to be included in The Book of Lists, published in 1978.
He ranked them in the following manner:
1.____________
2. Jack Nicklaus
3. Ben Hogan
4. Byron Nelson
5. Arnold Palmer
6. Bobby Jones
7. Walter Hagen
8. Gene Sarazen
9. Billy Casper
10. Gary Player
When asked why he didn't name someone No. 1, Snead replied, "I might have made a lot of enemies."

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: April 25th, 2011, 4:30 am
by Stan Nehilla
Apr 25

"The game is one of the most exasperating hitherto devised by the wit of man."
- H.S.C. Everard

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: April 26th, 2011, 5:04 am
by Stan Nehilla
Apr 26

"Unlike the other Scottish game of whiskey-drinking, excess in golf is not injurious to the health."
-Sir Walter Simpson

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: April 26th, 2011, 11:29 pm
by Stan Nehilla
Apr 27

"Putting greens are to golf courses what faces are to portraits."
-Charles B. Macdonald, The Anatomy of a Golf Course

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: April 27th, 2011, 11:31 pm
by Stan Nehilla
Apr 28

Eclectic golf pro Rocky Thompson designed an extra-long 56-inch driver known as Killer Bee. Thompson was duly elected mayor of his hometown, Toco, Texas.