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Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: October 8th, 2011, 5:14 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 8

" The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."
- George Deukmejian, former governor of California

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: October 9th, 2011, 4:49 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 9

" The answer to Hogan is, I fancy, that if Hogan means to win, you lose."
- Henry Longhurst, on Ben Hogan

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: October 10th, 2011, 5:13 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 10

" I don't care to join any club that's prepared to have me as a member."
- Groucho Marx

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: October 11th, 2011, 6:07 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 11

" When you hear a golfer enlarging upon the cruel ill-treatment which his ball suffered after ' one of the finest shots that was ever played,' you need not hastily conclude that the stroke was one of any really transcendent merit."
- Horace Hutchinson

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: October 12th, 2011, 4:17 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 12

" Never bet with anyone you meet on the 1st tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag and squinty eyes."
- Dave Marr

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: October 13th, 2011, 4:58 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 13

" Golf : A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood."
- Samuel Johnson

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: October 14th, 2011, 4:43 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 14

" One very simple tip will infinitely improve the timing of most golfers. Merely pause briefly at the top of the backswing."
- Tommy Armour, How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: October 15th, 2011, 4:57 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 15

" The back is not made to do the things we do. The only thing worse is rodeo."
- Fred Couples

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: October 16th, 2011, 5:15 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 16

" The more I studied the Old Course the more I loved it ; and the more I loved it, the more I studied it."
- Bobby Jones, on St. Andrews

Re: Wit & Wisdom of Golf

Posted: October 17th, 2011, 4:57 am
by Stan Nehilla
Oct 17

" Years ago we discovered the exact midpoint, the dead canter, of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. "
_ Franklin P. Adams, Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations