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Golf Truisms
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1. Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. -- Grantland Rice 2. 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 3. It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. -- Robert Lynd 4. If profanity had any influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. -- Horace G. Hutchinson 5. They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. -- Gardner Dickinson 6. If a lot of people gri pped a knife and fork as poorly as they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. -- Sam Snead 7. Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. -- William Wordsworth 8. If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt -- Dean Martin 9. If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. -- Tommy Bolt 10. Man blames fate for all other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole-in-one. -- Bishop Sheen 11. I don't say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced. -- Arnold Palmer 12. My handicap? Woods and irons. -- Chris Codiroli 13. The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flag stick on top. -- Pete Dye 14. I'm hitting the woods just great; but having a terrible time getting out of them! -- Buddy Hackett 15. The only time my prayers are never answered is playing golf. -- Billy Graham 16. If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. -- Jack Lemmon 17. It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. -- Mark Twain 18. Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. -- Harry Vardon 19. Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at either of them. -- Jimmy DeMaret 20. May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters. -- Ben Hogan 21. If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle. -- Anon 22. The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. -- George Deukmejian 23. Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. -- Lee Trevino 24. Reason they call it golf is cuz all the other four-letter words were taken. -- Woody Woodbury Finally: 25. The No.#1 Golf rule you MUST follow: take the car keys out of your golf bag before you throw it into the creek. |