Since it’s ‘almost’ spring and golf season…
- Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
~ Grantland Rice2. 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 Updike3. It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
~ Robert Lynd4. 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. Hutchinson5. They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
~ Gardner Dickinson6. If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork as poorly as they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
~ Sam Snead7. Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
~ William Wordsworth8. If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
~ Dean Martin9. 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 Bolt10. Man blames fate for all other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole-in-one.
~ Bishop Sheen11. I don’t say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.
~ Arnold Palmer12. My handicap? Woods and irons.
~ Chris Codiroli13. The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flag stick on top.
~ Pete Dye14. I’m hitting the woods just great, but having a terrible time getting out of them!
~ Buddy Hackett15. The only time my prayers are never answered is playing golf.
~ Billy Graham16. If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
~ Jack Lemmon17. It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
~ Mark Twain18. Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
~ Harry Vardon19. Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at either of them.
~ Jimmy DeMaret20. May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
~ Ben Hogan21. 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.
~ All Us Hackers22. The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.
~ George DeukmejianAND FINALLY……………
- Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.
~ Lee Trevino
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Ten Best Caddy Comebacks. . .
Number :10
Golfer: “I think I’m going to drown myself in the lake.”
Caddy: “Think you can keep your head down that long?”
Number : 9
Golfer: “I’d move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course.”
Caddy: “Try heaven, you’ve already moved most of the earth.”
Number : 8
Golfer: “Do you think my game is improving?”
Caddy: “Yes . . . . You miss the ball much closer now.”
Number : 7
Golfer: “Do you think I can get there with a 5 iron?”
Caddy: “Eventually.”
Number : 6
Golfer: “You’ve got to be the worst caddy in the world.”
Caddy: “I don’t think so . . . .That would be too much of a coincidence.”
Number : 5
Golfer: “Please stop checking your watch all the time. It’s too much of a distraction.”
Caddy: “it’s a compass.”
Number : 4
Golfer: “How do you like my game?”
Caddy: “It’s very good – but personally, I prefer golf.”
Number : 3
Golfer: “Do you think it’s a sin to play on Sunday?
Caddy: “The way you play, it’s a sin on any day.”
Number : 2
Golfer: “This is the worst course I’ve ever played on.”
Caddy: “This isn’t the golf course . . . . We left that an hour ago.”
And the Number : 1 . . . . Best Caddy Comeback:
Golfer: “That can’t be my ball, it’s too old.”
Caddy: “It’s been a long time since we teed off, sir.”
Y’all have a good week!
I cannot help but hear Rodney Dangerfield’s voice in those caddy comebacks.
You are not alone.
Pea/Ed- Me too!
Golf Course: a ruined rifle range. “Golf, a fine walk spoiled” Mark Twain