Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 16

" Old Tom is the most remote point to which we can carry back our genealogical inquiries into the golfing style, so that we may virtually accept him as the common golfing ancestor who has stamped the features of his style most distinctly on his descendants. "
- Horace Hutchinson, on Old Tom Morris

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 17

Lee Elder was the first African-American golfer to play in the Masters. He qualified by winning the 1974 Monsanto (Pensacola) Open.

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 18

" Golf architecture is an art closely aligned to that of the artist or sculptor, but also necessitating a scientific knowledge of many other subjects.
- Alister Mackenzie

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 19

" When a putter is waiting his turn to hole out a putt of one or two feet in length, on which the match hangs at the last hole, it is of vital importance that he think of nothing."
- Sir Walter Simpson

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 20

" A tolerable day, a tolerable green, a tolerable opponent, supply, or ought to supply, all that any reasonably constituted human being should require in the way of entertainment."
- A. J. Balfour

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 21

" When he gets the ball into a rough place, that's when he's most relaxed. I think it's because he has so much experience at it."
- Don Christopher, Jack Lemmon's caddie

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 22

Byron Nelson won 11 consecutive PGA Tour tournaments in 1945 - - the most unbreakable record in all of sports.

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 23

" It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf."
- Robert Lynd

[tincup]

Byron Nelson won 11 consecutive PGA Tour tournaments in 1945 - - the most unbreakable record in all of sports.

Not only that, he won a total of 18 tournaments that year. In total, he made around $63,000 which he used to buy his ranch, to which he retired the following year. Nothing left to accomplish I guess.

[Stan Nehilla]

Nov 24

" I saw a course you'd really like, Trent. On the 1st tee, you take a drop."
- Jimmy Demaret, to course architect Robert Trent Jones