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

[E]ccentricity is absolutely without value on a Golf green. – John Strange Winter, “Ladies on the Green,” Golf Illustrated, 1899 July 28th