If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
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If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony.
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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