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Golf is not just exercise; it is an adventure, a romance…. a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined ... you have to live with the consequences of each action.
HAROLD SEGALL, New York Times, Jun. 15, 1986
Golf ... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P.G. WODEHOUSE, The Clicking of Cuthbert
Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, “If you are going to keep company with me, don’t embarrass me.”
GARY PLAYER, Christian Science Monitor, Jun. 24, 1965
Golf ... combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
P.J. O'ROURKE, Modern Manners
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
PETE DYE, Randy Voorhees' As Hogan Said...
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.
ROBERT LYND, Erin Barrett's Al Capone Was a Golfer
Golf is the Great Mystery.
P.G. WODEHOUSE, The Heart of Gold
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
MARK TWAIN, Greatly Exaggerated: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
The uglier a man's legs are the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
Golf is not a game of great shots. It’s a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
GENE LITTLE, interview, Mar. 22, 1969
If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
PAUL GALLICO, New York Times, Mar. 6, 1977
From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.
ARNOLD PALMER, A Golfer's Life
Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.
MICHAEL GREEN, The Art of Coarse Golf
Give me golf clubs, fresh air, and a beautiful partner, and you can keep my golf clubs and the fresh air.
JACK BENNY, Erin Barrett's Al Capone Was a Golfer
It always helps to have a technique. In golf, it's all about visualizing. You have to practice; being in the situation is the only thing that helps. You have to make all the mistakes and you have to learn from them. The more you do it, the more comfortable you feel and then you learn.
LORENA OCHOA, Newsweek, Oct. 15, 2007
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Golf is typical capitalist lunacy.
Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.
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