Showing posts with label Don Wade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don Wade. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 May 2010

133 - Quote/Unquote...

My backswing off the first tee had put him in mind of an elderly lady of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders. - Patrick Campbell

Those golfers who look as though they got dressed in the dark should be penalised two strokes each for offending the public eye. - Doug Sanders

When the ducks are walking, you know it is too windy to be playing golf. - Dave Stockton

(On how to play through a lightning storm) Hold up a one iron and walk. Not even God can hit a one iron. - Lee Trevino

We learn so many things from golf - how to suffer, for instance. - Bruce Lansky

Unless his putting stroke deserts him, Seve Ballesteros should become the richest Spaniard since Queen Isabella. - Jim Murray Los Angeles Times (1976)

My game went so bad today, that I lost two balls in the ball washer. - Author unknown

Watching a golf tournament is different from attending other sports arenas. For one thing, the drunks are spread out in a larger area. - Don Wade

A professional will tell you the amount of flex you need in the shaft of your club. The more the flex, the more strength you will need to break the thing over your knee. - Stephen Baker

Hubert Green swings like a drunk trying to find a keyhole in the dark. - Jim Murray

Saturday, 18 July 2009

69 - Quote/Unquote...

"One of the reasons Arnie Palmer is playing so well is that, before each final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them. Oh my God, what have I just said." - US Open TV Commentator

"You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work." - Lee Trevino

For most amateurs the best wood in the bag is the pencil. - Chi Chi Rodriguez

"The people who gave us golf and called it a game are the same people who gave us bag pipes and called it music." - "Silk Stockings" TV Show

Golf combines two favourite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with sticks. - P. J. O'Rourke

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf will. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you can get so sore at yourself that you forget to hate you enemies. - Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935)

Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with the big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her. - Val Doonican

The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it. - Bob Allen

Watching a golf tournament is different from attending other sports arenas. For one thing, the drunks are spread out in a larger area. - Don Wade

Golf is best understood as a series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle. - Anon