BETTING "A man's true colors will surface quicker in a five-dollar Nassau than in any other form of peacetime diversion I can name." --Grantland Rice EQUIPMENT "That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone." -- Babe Zaharias GOLFING PEOPLE Jim Furyk "Instead of taking the club away like a normal human being, Furyk throws it out away from him, like a cowboy initiating a rope trick. . . . If the ball were a small animal trying to escape slaughter, it wouldn't have a chance." -- John Paul Newport, Golf Digest Arnold Palmer "The Palmer Salad at the Bay Hill Club costs $3.95, which is 45 cents more than the Caesar Salad. It figures, Caesar might have looked good on a chariot, but he never mounted a charge like Arnie." -- Brian Viner, London Mail on Sunday GOLF COURSES "Augusta National is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fallout of the trees and hit me in the face." -- David Feherty READING MATTER "The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book. There are superb books about golf, very good books about baseball, not very many good books about basketball, and no good books on beach balls." -- George Plimpton
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From the Back Cover:
For those who read about golf as avidly as they play it--and they number in the millions--The Hole Is More Than the Sum of the Putts is a comprehensive and entertaining collection of the best of everything that has been written or said about the game. More than 2,500 quotes cover a variety of themes and topics--from classic citations to literary links, from coarse rhymes to course notes, from anti-golf sneering to humorous cheering. Within these pages, professionals to amateur hackers, literary giants to semi-illiterates, the famous to the infamous, all share their observation on the game. Bringing together the best of golfing wit, wisdom, and wordplay, this collection belongs on every literate golfer's bookshelf.
About the Author:
Colin Jarman is an experienced sailor and journalist and the features editor of Yachting Monthly, a British sailing magazine. Bill Beavis spent 12 years as a merchant navy officer and was assistant editor of Yachting Monthly.
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- PublisherMcGraw-Hill
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0809226839
- ISBN 13 9780809226832
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages432