The Quotable Golfer [Hardcover]

Robert McCord (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Quotable | Publication Date: March 1, 2000

"This is a game of misses. The guy who misses the best is going to win." --Ben Hogan

"Golf is so popular because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad." --A. A. Milne

"No one has ever conquered this game. One week out there and you are god; next time you are the devil." --Juli Inkster

"I just hitch up my girdle and let'er fly." --Babe Didrickson Zaharias

Here is a rich compendium of golf quotes that reflect the history, tradition, agony, and ecstasy of the game. Organized into categories such as "Golf Defined," "The Mental Game," "Men Touring," "Women touring," "Caddies," "Obstacles," and "Practice."

The Quotable Golfer includes words of wisdom from some of the game's most famous practitioners:

* Bobby Jones * Tommy Bolt * Harvey Penick * P.G. Wodehouse * Sammy Davis Jr. * Jack Lemmon * Lee Trevino * Tiger Woods * Bob Hope * Jack Nicklaus * Michael Murphy * Gerald R. Ford * Laura Davies * JoAnne Carner * John Updike * Sam Snead * Annika Sorenstam * Grantland Rice

This is a great gift book and a great book to browse and read when the weather isn't suited to eighteen holes of golf.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com 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 Inside Flap

The New Quotable Golfer is a rich compendium of golf quotes that reflect the history, tradition, agony, and ecstasy of the game. Organized into categories such as "Gold Defined," "The Mental Game," "Men Touring," "Women Touring," "Caddies," "Obstacles," and "Practice," The New Quotable Golfer 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 Rotelle, Mark Twain, Tom Watson, George Will, Tiger Woods, and many more...

 

This compilation of the most inclusive and timeless sayings about the sport makes a great gift for golf enthusiasts, from duffer to professional.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Press; 1st edition (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558219986
• ISBN-13: 978-1558219984
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,380,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhere Between a Par and A Bogey, April 2, 2008

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Big D (Auburn, AL. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Quotable Golfer: The Best Things Ever Said by the Pros and Duffers of the Sport (Paperback)

Most golfers would be happy to have a par or a bogey...scoring a par or a bogey is not a bad thing, but it is not as good as a score might be...and so it goes with this book.

Good quotes presented in an excellent context. The makeup and layout of the book may be among its' best attributes. Good quotes, too, some outstanding...but overall it lacks a little zip, the zip hoped for and anticipated in one of the first golf books of the spring.

Had the feeling reading the book that the writer (editor) tried to be a little too polticially correct. Quotes from women seemed to take up a disproportionate share of the text.

4.0 out of 5 stars For anyone who has ever been out on the course, August 5, 2000

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Marc Douglas Glenn "dirtlawyer" (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Quotable Golfer (Hardcover)

This book was an enjoyable compilation of quotes about the game of golf, from golfers and famous non-golfers. Anyone who has ever watched or played golf should have this book in their library.