Henry Beard Quotes

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• When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.
• "Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf
• Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.
• A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.
• If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back,…
• Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.
• A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.
• Bets lengthen putts and shorten drives.
• The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.
• Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's…
• Wear it if it clashes.
• Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.
• Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.
• I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.
• Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.
• Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.
• Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds…
• You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into the tub: bubble gels, bubble oils, bubble…
• Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I picture myself on…
• Topping the ball is a problem that usually afflicts only beginning golfers, and it is quickly left behind once a player has learned to master…

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