Rain Delay - Untold Stories from the Legends of Golf

by Mark Squire

“Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.” Ben Hogan

“Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn’t a lot of strokes when you consider the course.” Lee Trevino

“Forget your opponents; always play against par.” Sam Snead

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

“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.” Sam Snead

“If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.” Horace G. Hutchinson

“It took me seventeen years to get to 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course” Hank Aaron 1971

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

“I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone’s golf game: it’s called an eraser.” Arnold Palmer

“They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.” Raymond Floyd

“The greatest reward in life is to be remembered. Thank you for remembering me.” Kenneth Venturi

“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.” Ernest Hemingway

“There is no similarity between between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.” Ben Hogan

“Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.” Arnold Palmer

“Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you’re the best.” Jack Nicklaus

“Golf appeals to the idiot in us, and just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.” John Updike

“Arnold transcended the game of golf. He was more than a golfer or even great golfer. He was an icon. He was a legend. Arnold was someone who was a pioneer in his sport. He took the game from one level to a higher level, virtually by himself.” Jack Nicklaus—AP Sept. 2016

“What other people find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.” Arnold Palmer

Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open “My courses do not intimidate. to the enjoyable aspects of the game.” Tom Weiskopf

“The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest eighty-three of my life.” Chi Chi Rodriguez

“They throw their clubs backwards, and that’s wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don’t have to walk any extra distance to get it.” Tommy Bolt about the tempers of modern players.

“Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements illadapted to the purpose.” Woodrow Wilson

“Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren’t penalized for being on grass.” Bob Hope

“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.” Gerald R. Ford

“I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.” Gerald Ford

“If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.” Lee Trevino

“The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.” John Updike

“Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears.” Bobby Jones

“Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle.” Author Unknown

“I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.” Miller Barber

“Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result” Tommy Armour

“If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.” Dean Martin