Suosittelen voimakkaasti panostamaan kirjoihin jotka käsittelevät golfin pelaamista ja henkistä puolta. Svingioppaat voit suosiolla jättää hyllyyn.

Pari hyvää, joista voisi aloittaa Palmisen buddha nro 1:n lisäksi:

Gio Valentino, Fearless golf
Raymond Floyd, Elements of scoring

Pistää melkein vihaksi, kun ikkunasta katselee ulos – vettä, räntää – melkein kaikkea mahdollista tippuu taivaalta alas.

Onneksi jostain ”jenkkisaitilta” putkahti esiin (mistä lie lainattu) allaoleva kooste ja loi pientä piristystä tähänkin suomen etelän loskapäivään.

Funny golf quotes:

1. ’I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.’
– Greg Norman

2. ’You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my
ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands
work.’ – Lee Trevino

3. ’I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew
tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.’ – Lee Trevino

4. ’The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I
drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83
of my life.’ – Chi Chi Rodriquez

6. ’I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had
a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.’ – Don
Adams

7. ’To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It’s unreal,
and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes’ – Colin
Montgomerie

8. ’Pressure is playing for $10 when you don’t have a dime in
your pocket.’ – Lee Trevino

9. ’Some have psychologists, some have sportologists, I smoke.’
– Angel Cabrera

10. ’After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I’ve got a
good mind to jump in and make it four.’ – Simon Hobday

11. ’Golf is a game in which a ball – one and a half inches in
diameter – is placed on a ball – 8,000 miles in diameter. The
object being to hit the small ball but not the larger.’ – John
Cunningham

13. ’Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty
years to discover that I can’t play it.’ – Ted Ray

14.’If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do
a golf club, they’d starve to death.’ – Sam Snead

15. ’My goal this year is basically to find the fairways.’ –
Lauri Paterson

16. ’I know I’m getting better at golf because I’m hitting fewer
spectators.’ – Gerald Ford

17. ’Give me the fresh air, a beautiful partner, and a nice
round of golf… and you can keep the fresh air and the round of
golf.’ – Jack Benny

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

19. ’These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the
ball and hit it with the shadow.’ – Sam Snead

20. ’Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy
without being good at.’ – Jimmy Demaret

21. ’The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so
you can’t see him laughing.’ – Phyllis Diller

22. ’I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf
course?’ – Babe Ruth

23.’Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how
childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent
inability to count past five.’ – John Updike

24. ’After all these years, it’s still embarrassing for me to
play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie
for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on
rye.’ – Chi Chi Rodriguez

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Quotes about practicing…

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’You’ve got just one problem…you stand too close to the ball
after you hit it.’
-Some Wise Ass

’The more I practice, the luckier I get.’
-Any Golfer Worth His Salt

’What a shame to waste all those great shots on the practice
range.’
-Unknown

’Even God has to practice his putting.’
-Moses

’A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o’clock and
make it go toward 12 o’clock. But make sure it stays in the same
time
zone.’
-Chi Chi Rodriguez

’If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, you’d
be a much better golfer by now.’
-My Dad

’My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt.
The rest cannot be mastered.’
-Lord Robertson

’If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it
up at a much earlier age.’
-What Every Teaching Pro in the World is Thinking

’The meek may inherit the the earth, but they’ll never reach the
par 5 green in two.’
-Graham Allebaugh

’A golfer has to train his swing on the practice tee, then trust
it on the course.’
-Dr Bob Rotella

’There is no such thing as ’natural touch.’ Touch is something
you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
-Lee Trevino

’Forget your opponents; always play against par.’
-Sam Snead

’Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.’
-Sam Snead

’Keeping the head still is golf’s one universal, unarguable
fundamental.’
-Jack Nicklaus

’Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have,
yet no one knows how to teach either.’
-Bobby Jones

’The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.’
-Bobby Jones

’It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but
only one bad one to lose it.’
-Jack Nicklaus

’Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.’
-Cary Middlecoff

’Practice puts brains in your muscles.’
-Sam Snead