Best golf quotes
James Barrett Reston believed that golf was “a plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man’s sins.” Golfers have always had a love-hate relationship with the game. As Jim Bishop remarked: “Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.” Every golfer wishes they were better than they actually are, and that is despite so many golfers already believing they are better than they are. But then the whole game is daft for, as Lou Graham has pointed out, “hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have.” Here are some other people’s reflections on, advice about, and occasional bitterness towards, the game.
