New Quotable Golfer: The Best Things Ever Said By The Pros And Duffers Of The Sport - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599213192 ISBN 13: 9781599213194

Publisher: Lyons Press, 2008

Synopsis

A rich compendium of golf quotes that reflect the history, tradition, agony, and ecstasy of this time-honored game. Organized into categories such as “Golf Defined,” “The Mental Game,” “Men Touring,” “Women Touring,” “Caddies,” “Obstacles,” and “Practice,” this book includes words of wisdom from some of the game's most famous practitioners: Franklin Pierce Adams, Tommy Armour, Chip Beck, Winston Churchill, Raymond Floyd, Ben Hogan, Julie Inkster, Dan Jenkins, Samuel Johnson, Nancy Lopez, Arnold Palmer, Marcel Proust, John D. Rockefeller, Chi-Chi Rodriguez, Will Rogers, Dr. Bob Rotella, Mark Twain, Tom Watson, George Will, Tiger Woods, and many more. This compilation of the most incisive and timeless sayings about the sport makes a great gift for all golf enthusiasts, from duffer to professional.

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Review:

"Golf," observed Mark Twain, "is a good walk spoiled." Of course, golfers know it's more than that. It's "a game in which you try to put a small ball in a small hole with implements singularly unsuited to the purpose" (Winston Churchill). The wit and trenchancy of that esteemed twosome gets some pretty good competition in the pages of The Quotable Golfer by hackers and pros alike: P.G. Wodehouse, Bobby Jones, Lee Trevino, Joyce Wethered, Grantland Rice, Bob Hope, Gerald Ford, Tiger Woods, and Lee Trevino all make the cut with some pretty memorable mots. It is, however, an anonymous contribution that best manages to capture golf's unique mix of genteel etiquette with life-and-death sensibility. It comes in the form of a wonderful rhyme teed up when a course was being built around the grave of one Sarah Wallace: "Show respect to Sarah/You golfers passing by;/She's the only person on this course/Who can't improve her lie." No improvement possible on the verse either. --Jeff Silverman

From the Back Cover:

"I don't know if you're ever finished trying to improve. As soon as you feel like you are finished, then I guess you are finished, because you've already put a limit on your ability and what you can attain. I don't think that's right."
―Tiger Woods "I've never had a coach in my life. When I find one who can beat me, then I'll listen."―Lee Trevino The New Quotable Golfer is a rich compendium of golf quotes that reflect the history, tradition, agony, and ecstasy of the game. These words of wisdom come from some of the game's most famous practitioners and fans, such as Tommy Armour, Chip Beck, Raymond Floyd, Ben Hogan, Julie Inkster, Dan Jenkins, Nancy Lopez, Arnold Palmer, Chi-Chi Rodriguez, Dr. Bob Rotelle, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods, and many more. This compilation of the most inclusive and timeless sayings about the sport makes a great gift for all golf enthusiasts―from duffer to professional and everyone in between.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1599213192
• ISBN 13: 9781599213194
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: McCord Robert