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“There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.”

Quote by John Updike

Book:Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

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Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

This book compiles various pieces that explore the nuances, emotions, and experiences associated with playing golf. more

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John Updike was an American novelist known for his profound insights into middle-class life and his delicate narrative skills. His works spanned a wide range of genres from short stories to novels, including the classic 'Rabbit, Run' series and 'The Centaur'. more

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“The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.”

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Author:John Updike

“In no other sport must the spectator move.”

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“Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.”

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Book:Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

Source: Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

“Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.”

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Book:Golf Dreams

Source: Golf Dreams

“Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.”

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“The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.”

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“He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.”

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Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.”

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Book:The Clicking of Cuthbert

Source: The Clicking of Cuthbert

“A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.”

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Source: The Clicking of Cuthbert

“What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition making itself unpleasant. And we spend our time playing golf? What do we get out of it? Is golf any use? That's what I'm asking you. Can you name me a single case where devotion to this pestilential pastime has done a man any practical good?”

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Book:The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Clicking of Cuthbert: Easyread Large Bold Edition