Battleground Quote by Alistair Cooke

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

— Anonymous

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

— Tom Watson

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

— Florence King

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of…

— Emily Post

Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

— James Reston, Jr

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and…

— P. G. Wodehouse

The sport was right in the center of these changing social dynamics. It was a game invented by blue-collar people in Scotland but adopted…

— Mark Frost

From its earliest beginnings, golf has been a gentleman's game - to be played as much for the sake of the game as for…

— Tony Lema

What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“Of all the recreational activities of man, golf had to be the stupidest. The massive effort to beat nature into submission--daily moving, watering, and…

— Maggie Thrash

Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination...…

— Herbert Wind

WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for…

— Herbert Wind