It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. – Hank Aaron, 1971

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

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