A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. – Author unknown, variation of a famous non-golf quotation by Samuel Johnson “It i
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable. – A.P. Herbert, Misleading Cases, 1935