Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Sep 18

" There are no secrets to golf. The secret of success is practice, constant but intelligent practice. "
- Earnest Jones, At Random Through the Green

[Stan Nehilla]

Sep 19

" Obviously the deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle."
- Jackie Gleason , to writer Milton Gross

[Stan Nehilla]

Sep 20

" Players should pick up bomb and shell splinters from the fairways in order to save damage to the mowers. "
- Rule in Great Britain during World War II

[Stan Nehilla]

Sep 21

Having 185 yards left for his second shot at Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, New York, Rick Warner decided to hit a 9-iron. Not too many people can hit a 9-iron that far, but Warner could. What was surprising was the size of the divot. His playing partner, Jim McLean, had it checked out and it measured 22 inches long and 15 inches wide. What's more, the ball flew over the green.

[Stan Nehilla]

Sep 22

" Reading a green is like reading small type of a contract. If you don't read it with painstaking care, you are likely to be in real trouble."
- Claude Harmon

[Stan Nehilla]

Sep 23

" Like the classic plays and symphonies, Sam Snead doesn't belong to just one generation. His mark will be left on golf for eternity. "
- Peter Thomson

[Stan Nehilla]

Sep 24

" The only reason I played golf was so I could afford to hunt and fish. "
- Sam Snead

[Stan Nehilla]

Sep 25

Tiger Woods earned fame for winning three US Amateur titles in a row while at Stanford, but he wasn't the only Bay Area player to accomplish that feat. From 1980 to 1982, future LPGA Hall of Famer Juli Inkster of San Jose State won the US Woman's Amateur titles.

[Stan Nehilla]

Sep 26

" I can airmail the golf ball, but sometimes I don't put the right address on it."
- Jim Dent

[Stan Nehilla]

Sep 27

Founded in 1766, Royal Blackheath Golf Club, southeast of London, was the first golf course in England. Golf was played in Scotland at least three centuries before.