Golf Sim Clubhouse Forum

Feb 19

If your playing golf in Japan, chances are pretty good you won't run into someone using a golf ball with the number 4 on it. That's a bad-luck number for the Japanese, and they do not manufacture any for the locals. Instead, a dozen Japanese balls are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 7.

Feb 20

"Three things are as unfathomable as they are fascinating to the masculine mind: metaphysics, golf and the feminine heart."
- - Arnold Haultain

I guess they don't carry a 4 wood or iron either.

Do they call it "gorf" in Japan?

Feb 21

"That's a bagful of indecision."
- - Jackie Burke, when Arnold Palmer brought eight putters to the practice green.

Feb 22

"Golf is fully as companionable an amusement as it can be a solitary one."
- - Bernard Darwin

Feb 23

Actor Sean Connery hated golf until he was forced to learn to swing for a role in the James Bond film Goldfinger.Connery quickly became hooked on the game and has played for more than 30 years at the great golf courses in his native Scotland.

Feb 24

"You need a doctorate degree to putt at Augusta National."
- - Johnny Miller

Feb 25

"In wellnigh every golf match which is at all close, there is almost inevitably one notable turning point, a crisis at which the golfing quality is put to its severest test."
- - Horace Hutchinson

Feb 26

"He came from nowhere and he went back there."
- - Anonymous, of 1935 Open Champion Alf Perry