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“People who don’t play golf pro to envy their golfing neighbors, admiring it as a nifty game you can play to a ripe old age. What they don’t understand is that we don’t keep playing because we can; we play because we don’t know how to stop. It lands in our hands for just a moment before slipping through our fingers, and we grab for it again and again. It’s a shell game, a music man, a three-card monte from which we can’t walk away. Once in a while it glances back at us, and it’s achingly beautiful. A siren? Perhaps. But those sailors at least got the closure of wrecking on the rocks. Golfers find the rocks and just drop another ball.”
― A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course
― A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course
“I too often took golf’s capriciousness as its most maddening vice, but if I adjusted my stance and looked from another angle, its fickleness was the game’s greatest gift.”
― A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game
― A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game
“I want to believe all of that, just as I want to believe that one morning in the ninth century a Scottish king looked up and saw St. Andrew’s diagonal cross in the sky above—white clouds against a blue sky—and took it as a sign to march outnumbered against the Angles. His vision and victory gave birth to the Scottish flag—white × against a blue backdrop—and is too good a story to not be true. And I want to believe that the patron saint of golfers did actually utter St. Andrews’ town motto as his final words, the Latin phrase now stitched into my putter cover and the only tattoo I might ever get: Dum Spiro Spero. While I breathe, I hope.”
― A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game
― A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game
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