Showing posts with label Jimmy Demaret. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jimmy Demaret. Show all posts

Saturday, 8 August 2009

87 - Quote/Unquote...

If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him. - Bob Hope

Our guess is that the inventor of scopolamine, the truth-forcing drug, grew weary of listening to golf scores. - Colorado Springs Gazette

Some guys get so nervous playing for their own money, the greens don't need fertilising for a year. - Dave Hill

I don't care to join any club that's prepared to have me as a member. - Groucho Marx

Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread. - Jimmy Demaret

I'm hitting the driver so good, I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it. - Lee Trevino

According to locker-room lore, the name golf arose by default - all the other four-letter words had already been taken. - George Pepper

Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game. - Burt Shotten

Golf is an ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable sphere into an inaccessible hole with instruments ill-adapted to the purpose. - Sir Winston Churchill

It's not polite to pick up a lost ball before it stops rolling. 
- Anonymous

Saturday, 25 July 2009

76 - Quote/Unquote...

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

"I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced." - Lee Trevino

"Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at." - Jimmy Demaret

"Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour." - Unknown

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. - Phyllis Diller

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. - Jack Benny

The other day I broke 70. That's a lot of clubs. - Henny Youngman

Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much. - Buddy Hackett

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. - Dave Barry

John Daly's driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays. - Ian Baker-Finch