Golf Sim Clubhouse Forum

Feb 9

"Golf is a game where guts, stick-to-itivness, and blind devotion will get you nothing but an ulcer."
- - Tommy Bolt

Feb 10

When Gary Player first went to the Open in 1955 at the Old Course at St, Andrews, he couldn't afford a hotel. The future three-time Open winner slept in the bunkers of the course near the sea.

Feb 11

"You can play a damned good shot and find the ball in a damned bad place."
- - George Duncan, on St. Andrews

Feb 12

"Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him."
- - Walter Hagen

Feb 13

Modern golf really became popular in the 1950s because President Eisenhower loved the game, and because tournaments on TV showed the world a golfer named Arnold Palmer.

Feb 14

"Give me golf clubs, the fresh air, and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the golf clubs and fresh air."
- - Jack Benny

Feb 15

On February 15, 1995, President Bill Clinton became the first sitting president to play in a PGA Tour event when he played in the first round of the Bob Hope Classic pro-am. The famous fivesome included Hope, professional Scott Hoch, former President Gerald Ford, and former President George H. W. Bush, whom Clinton had defeated for the presidency just 26 months earlier.

Feb 16

"This course is 90 percent horse manure and 10 percent luck."
- - J C Snead, on TPC Sawgrass, Bury Me in a Pot Bunker

Feb 17

"My favourite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt."
- - Lord Robertson

Feb 18

"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."
- - John Updike