No DQ for Tiger but a two-stroke penalty?
Roberto De Vicenzo, show up at the Butler Cabin and fetch your Green Jacket.
Dan Jenkins
April, 2013
A Wise Man Said
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Category Archives: Short Putts
Sex Appeal
“No offense, Arnold, but I think she’s going to sell more tea than you.”
Dow Finsterwald, 1958 PGA Champ, commenting when he heard SI Swimsuit model Kate Upton might be in a commercial with Arnold Palmer for his famous 1/2 lemonade-1/2 iced tea drink.
Golf World
April, 2013
Retrievers
Golfers who carry ball retrievers are gatherers, not hunters. They’ve given up the chase. They’ve climbed as far up the hill as they can climb, and now the paths lead only down. They’ve stopped tinkering with their grip. They don’t practice in the sand. Their dreams are no longer of conquest, but only of salvage.
David Owen
My Usual Game
March, 2013
Managing Intention
The object of golf architecture is to give an intelligent purpose to the striking of a golf ball.
Max Behr
As quoted by Geoff Shackelford in “Natural Wonder”
Golf World March 2013
Golf’s DNA
Golf is twenty percent mechanics and technique. The other eighty percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness, and conversation.
Grantland Rice
Worldhickoryopen.com
November, 2012
Sober Advice
Notice
The suggestion book will now be kept
behind the bar and available therefore
from the staff, who have been instructed
not to release the book to members who
have been drinking excessively.
Jon Bennett, Secretary
Sign posted in the 110-year old clubhouse of the Leven Course in Scotland,
the twelfth oldest golf club in the world.
Scotland Where Golf Is Great
James W. Finegan
October, 2012
Friends
I could take out of my life everything except my experiences at St. Andrews and I would
still have a rich and full life.
When you have made me aware on many occasions that you have a kindly feeling toward me, and when you have honored me by every means at your command, then when I call you my friends I am at once affirming my high regard and affection for you and my trust in the sincerity of your expression. And so, my fellow citizens of St. Andrews, it is with this appreciation of the full measure of the work that I salute you as my friends.
-Unscripted remarks at the ceremony on being made a freeman of the Burgh of St. Andrews
Bobby Jones
Younger Graduation Hall
St. Andrews
1958
Sunday Pressure
“I had trouble getting the butterflies to fly in formation.”
On his nerves while playing in a final group for the first time on the PGA Tour.
William McGirt-PGA Pro
Golf Magazine
September, 2012
Mindset For Golf
Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. Nor is this to be wondered at when we consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play…Next to the idiotic, the dull unimaginative mind is the best for golf.
Sir Walter Simpson
The Art of Golf (1887)
Quoted in: Grounds For Golf
Geoff Shackelford (2003)
The Humor Of Golf
The humor of golf is a divine comedy in the deeper sense. Like all sources of laughter it lies in contrast and paradox; in the thought of otherwise grave men gravely devoting hours and money to a technique which so often they, apparently alone, do not know they can never master. The solemnity of the eternal failure is vastly comic. The perpetualness of their hope is nobly humorous.
R. C. Robertson-Glaskow (1901-1965)
Quoted in: Grounds For Golf
Geoff Shackelford (2003)
