Are apt to say….for a straight drive “We’re rait down the meddle” for the first slice “You’re way awf in the gorse”.
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Scottish caddies, like nurses, alternate between the first person plural and the second person singular as a handy method of distributing praise and blame.
Alistair Cooke
Golf-The Marvelous Mania (2007)
For those of you who sought insight by playing your Beatles albums backwards consider that flipping the spelling of Golf you get….
Seems appropriate………
May, 2015
“Golf will let you share joy and also pain without anyone in your foursome ever having to ask ‘So how did that make you feel?'” Jaime Diaz
‘Golf is yoga for Republicans.’ Michael Murphy
“Golf is book group for men” Michael Bamberger
As quoted in Michael Bamberger’s “Men In Green”
May, 2015
Relating Ken Venturi’s first golf joke after the moon landing:
“Hear what Neil Armstrong really said when he stepped on the moon….
That damn Trent Jones.”
Dan Jenkins
Unplayable Lies (2015)
On the subject of Old Money vs New Money
Old money members never wear wristwatches…they don’t have to be anywhere or do anything.
A New Money member’s bulging gold Rolex lost time momentarily the other day and caused a brownout in a major American city.
Dan Jenkins
Unplayable Lies (2015)
The question before the golfers of the world is plain…… Are they going to be sportsmen and accept a ball that requires skill to propel, or, in their infantile worship of mere distance, are they going to continue to be downright game-hogs?
Max Behr (probably in the 1920’s)
Lines of Charm (Geoff Shackelford)
The weekly dispersal of huge sums of money to young people who have been programmed since prepuberty to hit golf balls is, by and large, an uninteresting medium of entertainment except that it has, by bad example, tended to make our game a painfully slow one.
Frank Hannigan
The Golf Journal (1974)
The object of golf architecture is to give an intelligent purpose to the striking of a golf ball.
Max Behr
Lines of Charm (Geoff Shackelford)
Too many golf courses focus on separating a good shot from a bad one. The real goal should be to separate a good shot from a great one, while allowing the bad shots to eventually find their way home.
George Waters
Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green?
Anonymous
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