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.
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win.
One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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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