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Synopsis
"This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win." --Ben Hogan
"Golf is so popular because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad." --A. A. Milne
"No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are god; next time you are the devil." --Juli Inkster
"I just hitch up my girdle and let'er fly." --Babe Didrickson Zaharias
Here is a rich compendium of golf quotes that reflect the history, tradition, agony, and ecstasy of the game. Organized into categories such as "Golf Defined," "The Mental Game," "Men Touring," "Women touring," "Caddies," "Obstacles," and "Practice."
The Quotable Golfer includes words of wisdom from some of the game's most famous practitioners:
* Bobby Jones * Tommy Bolt * Harvey Penick * P.G. Wodehouse * Sammy Davis Jr. * Jack Lemmon * Lee Trevino * Tiger Woods * Bob Hope * Jack Nicklaus * Michael Murphy * Gerald R. Ford * Laura Davies * JoAnne Carner * John Updike * Sam Snead * Annika Sorenstam * Grantland Rice
This is a great gift book and a great book to browse and read when the weather isn't suited to eighteen holes of golf.
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"Golf," observed Mark Twain, "is a good walk spoiled." Of course, golfers know it's more than that. It's "a game in which you try to put a small ball in a small hole with implements singularly unsuited to the purpose" (Winston Churchill). The wit and trenchancy of that esteemed twosome gets some pretty good competition in the pages of The Quotable Golfer by hackers and pros alike: P.G. Wodehouse, Bobby Jones, Lee Trevino, Joyce Wethered, Grantland Rice, Bob Hope, Gerald Ford, Tiger Woods, and Lee Trevino all make the cut with some pretty memorable mots. It is, however, an anonymous contribution that best manages to capture golf's unique mix of genteel etiquette with life-and-death sensibility. It comes in the form of a wonderful rhyme teed up when a course was being built around the grave of one Sarah Wallace: "Show respect to Sarah/You golfers passing by;/She's the only person on this course/Who can't improve her lie." No improvement possible on the verse either. --Jeff Silverman
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The New Quotable Golfer is a rich compendium of golf quotes that reflect the history, tradition, agony, and ecstasy of the game. Organized into categories such as "Gold Defined," "The Mental Game," "Men Touring," "Women Touring," "Caddies," "Obstacles," and "Practice," The New Quotable Golfer includes words of wisdom from some of the game's most famous practitioners: Franklin Pierce Adams, Tommy Armour, Chip Beck, Winston Churchill, Raymond Floyd, Ben Hogan, Julie Inkster, Dan Jenkins, Samuel Johnson, Nancy Lopez, Arnold Palmer, Marcel Proust, John D. Rockefeller, Chi-Chi Rodriguez, Will Rogers, Dr. Bob Rotelle, Mark Twain, Tom Watson, George Will, Tiger Woods, and many more... This compilation of the most inclusive and timeless sayings about the sport makes a great gift for golf enthusiasts, from duffer to professional.
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- PublisherLyons Pr
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1558219986
- ISBN 13 9781558219984
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages346
- EditorMcCord Robert
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