A Commonplace Book

Category: golf...

  • there is a limit of 14 golf clubs
  • golf balls were wood, then leather, then gutta-percha, then hard rubber
  • irons are for short to mid-range shots; woods for longer shots
  • being an "am" in a pro-am golf tournament
  • the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland
  • how one great golf shot wipes out a hundred bad ones
  • a cross-country game involving teeing grounds and a series of holes on a course
  • seaside links with crisp turf and natural hazards
  • some historians tracing the game to Roman paganica, c 1st century BC - though golf came into being only a little before the 15th century
  • a golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors. (F. Butler)
  • Golf is a good walk spoiled. (M. Twain)
  • If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. (Bob Hope)

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