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• Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
• The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as…
• To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series…
• In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
• Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
• There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit…
• I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you…
• So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or…
• It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people…
• The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
• The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded…
• I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

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