MORE QUOTABLE QUOTES

Take it easy and lazily, because the golf ball isn't going to run away from you while you're swinging. -Sam Snead

Being left-handed is a big advantage: No one knows enough about your swing to mess you up with advice. -Bob Charles

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. -Tommy Bolt

Never break your putter and your driver in the same match, or you're dead. -Tommy Bolt

Ninety percent of putts that are short don't go in. -Yogi Berra

Through years of experience, I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. -Jack Nicklaus

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball. -Don Carter

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

The more I preactice, the luckier I get. -Gary Player

What goes up must come down. But don't exxpect it to come down where you can find it. -Lily Tomlin

GOOD THINGS TO KNOW

Situation: You may NOT improve the lie of the ball, the stance and intended swing area, the line of play or the area for a drop.

Penalty: Two strokes

Rule: 13-2

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Situation: You may NOT test the condition of a hazard, touch the ground or the water in a hazard with your hand or a club before a stroke, or touch/move any loose impediment lying in or touching the hazard.

Penalty: Two strokes

Rule: 13-4a, b and c

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Situation: A ball is struck more than once during the same swing

Penalty: Count of the stroke + one penalty

Rule: 14-4

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Situation: Playing a moving ball

Penalty: Two Strokes

Rule: 14-5
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Situation: The ball falls of the tee while addressing

Penalty: No penalty - re-tee

Rule: 11-3

QUOTABLE QUOTES

The following come from the book "Al Capone was a Golfer, Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Golf" by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. -Gary Player

Golf is a game of expletives not deleted. -Dr. Irving Gladstone

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

Golf is like faith: It is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. -Arnold Haultain

Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off. -ChiChi Rodriguez

Golf is 20% mechanics and technique. The other 80% is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversations. -Grantland Rice

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way to ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place. -Ben Crenshaw

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. -Thomas Armour

Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. -Will Rogers.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most accurate misses. -Gene Littler

Golf is a game of endless predicaments. -ChiChi Rodriguez

Golf is a game where guts, stick-to-it-ness and blind devotion will get you nothing but an ulcer. -Tommy Bolt

BUT MOST OF ALL:

Golf is meant to be fun. -Jack Nicklaus

Wise man that Jack.