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The New Quotable Golfer: The Best Things Ever Said by the Pros and Duffers of the Sport (Quotable)

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Creator: Robert Mccord
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book

List Price: ~~$14.95~~
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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1957312

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.9 x 0.7

ISBN: 1599213192
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352
EAN: 9781599213194
ASIN: 1599213192

Publication Date: March 18, 2008
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Also Available In:

•	Hardcover - The Quotable Golfer
•	Paperback - The Quotable Golfer (Quotable)
•	Hardcover - The Quotable Golfer (Quotable)

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
"Golf," observed Mark Twain, "is a good walk spoiled." Of course, golfers know it's more than that. It's "a game in which you try to put a small ball in a small hole with implements singularly unsuited to the purpose" (Winston Churchill). The wit and trenchancy of that esteemed twosome gets some pretty good competition in the pages of The Quotable Golfer by hackers and pros alike: P.G. Wodehouse, Bobby Jones, Lee Trevino, Joyce Wethered, Grantland Rice, Bob Hope, Gerald Ford, Tiger Woods, and Lee Trevino all make the cut with some pretty memorable mots. It is, however, an anonymous contribution that best manages to capture golf's unique mix of genteel etiquette with life-and-death sensibility. It comes in the form of a wonderful rhyme teed up when a course was being built around the grave of one Sarah Wallace: "Show respect to Sarah/You golfers passing by;/She's the only person on this course/Who can't improve her lie." No improvement possible on the verse either. --Jeff Silverman

Product Description

A comprehensive collection of the best things ever said about the game of golf.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars

Somewhere Between a Par and A Bogey April 2, 2008
Most golfers would be happy to have a par or a bogey...scoring a par or a bogey is not a bad thing, but it is not as good as a score might be...and so it goes with this book.

Good quotes presented in an excellent context. The makeup and layout of the book may be among its' best attributes. Good quotes, too, some outstanding...but overall it lacks a little zip, the zip hoped for and anticipated in one of the first golf books of the spring.

Had the feeling reading the book that the writer (editor) tried to be a little too polticially correct. Quotes from women seemed to take up a disproportionate share of the text.

4 out of 5 stars

For anyone who has ever been out on the course August 5, 2000
This book was an enjoyable compilation of quotes about the game of golf, from golfers and famous non-golfers. Anyone who has ever watched or played golf should have this book in their library.