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Below are a list of some of the most quoteable golf quotes. For more stories, tips, hints, quotes and humor, pick up a copy of Who’s Your Caddy? from PracticeRange.com.

• “Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps” -Tiger Woods
• “Green and black go well together, don’t they?” - Tiger Woods
• “Golf is a good walk spoiled.” - Mark Twain
• “In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.” - Bobby Jones
• “I never learned anything from a match that I won.” - Bobby Jones
• “Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.” - Jack Nicklaus
• “The most important shot in golf is the next one.” - Ben Hogan
• “Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.” - Sam Snead
• “Golf is the hardest game in the world to play, and the easiest to cheat at.” - Dave Hill
• “There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.” - Lee Trevino
• “Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.” - Harry Vardon
• “Hit the shot you know you can hit, not the one you think you should.” - Dr. Bob Rotella
• “Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn’t float too well.” - Craig Stadler
• “You know what they say about big hitters…the woods are full of them.” - Jimmy Demaret
• “Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.” - Bruce Crampton
• “I’ll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.” - Bruce Lansky
• “Missing a short putt does not mean you have to hit your next drive out of bounds.” - Henry Cotton
• “No matter how good you get you can always get better and that’s the exciting part” - Tiger Woods
• “I don’t think I’ve ever stepped into a gym - they won’t let me smoke there. I just thank God Miller Lite isn’t as fattening as most beers. If I cut back on beer, though, I’d look anorexic.” - John Daly
• “All my exes wear Rolexes.” - John Daly
• “I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.” - John Daly
• “My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.” - Nick Faldo, talking about John Daly
• “The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death.” - Howard Keel
• “Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at it” - Jimmy Demaret
• “When it’s breezy, hit it easy.” - Davis Love, Jr.
• “Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green?” - Anonymous
• “Golf is a game in which you yell “fore,” shoot six, and write down five.” - Paul Harvey
• “One thing about golf is you don’t know why you play bad and why you play good.” - George Archer
• “It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.” - Mark Twain 
• “The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.” - George Deukmejian 
• “Golf is a fascinating game.It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can’t play it.” - Ted Ray
• “Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.” - A.A. Milne

If you’ve been keeping up with the PGA Tour, or if you’re just one of those funny-picture junkies that surfs sports blooper photos, then you should have seen this scene last Saturday:

But just what do you do in this situation? Before you jump to conclusions…no, the answer is not to choke up on the grip and shorten your backswing to hit just behind the ball.

According to SportingNews.com:

By the time Jason Dufner reached the scene, all the fans had shuffled out of the immediate area except Miranda Cooper, who was still sitting in her folding chair, ball in her lap and her hands covering her face in embarrassment.

“You’ve got to play it where it lays,” PGA Tour rules official Tony Wallin jokingly told Dufner.

Wallin then put a marker under Cooper’s chair. She got up and Dufner got to drop the ball in that spot without penalty.

He reached the green, and then three putted for bogey. Dufner recovered to shoot 71 and was at 7-under.

Fortunately most of us don’t have to worry about a gallery watching our every move. Honestly, there are many times that a few people will start to watch me play, then promptly head for the hills so they don’t catch my case of the shanks, yips, chili dips, and whatever other golf affliction I seemed to have brought to the course with me.

But in the instance that you do play a tournament where official rules of golf are strictly adhered to, you’re going to want to know what to do in these tricky situations. Visit PracticeRange.com today for your copy of the 2008-2009 Decisions on the Rules of Golf.

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Kay Adkins
Baptist Press
Sep 13, 2007

GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)–By personal experience, teaching golf professional Scott Lehman discovered a principle that many church men’s ministries are discovering as well: Where there is a common interest in an activity, there is an inroad to a man’s heart. About 10 years ago, Lehman for the first time in his life entered a Christian bookstore seeking help for his then-failing marriage. He soon noticed a book with a golf theme — the devotional “In His Grip” by Jim Sheard and Wally Armstrong. He picked it up and began reading it.

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The state of Texas has a long and proud history with the game of golf, and it’s current players and teachers are no exception.

Houston’s Jim Hardy has been named the PGA Teacher of the Year for 2007.

“Being honored like this is a very humbling experience,” said Hardy. “You always kind of hope such things come your way, but when they call to say you’ve been chosen, it’s kind of hard to believe. It’s really a wonderful thing.”“I’m so proud that it happened for the Southern Texas PGA, too,” added Hardy. “We have many outstanding teachers within our Section . . . I kind of feel that we won as a Section, and it’s especially meaningful to be in the same company as Harvey Penick and Chuck Cook as PGA of America Teachers of the Year.”

Read the rest of the article about Jim Hardy from TexasGolf.Blogspot.com.

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1. Plane Truth for Golfers
2. Master Class: Plane Truth For Golfers