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Quote by Alistair Cooke
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflat

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. – Alistair Cooke

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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. – Alistair Cooke

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A “gimme” can best be defined as an agreement between two golfers, neither of whom can putt very well. – Author Unknown

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Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. – Jimmy DeMaret

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

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Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. – Michael Bamberger

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