A Good Walk Spoiled: A Book Of Golf Quotes

by Myles Dungan

The pithy comments of the high, mighty, and lowly, on their own games and on those of their fellow sufferers, are collected together in a volume which will have the golf fanatic laughing and nodding in sympathetic recognition and agreement."Has to be a must for any discerning golfer to add to his or her library." Brian Barnes"If you're going to throw a club in temper, it's important to throw it ahead of you in the direction of the green. That way you don't waste energy going back to pick it up." Tommy Bolt"I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler." David Feherty"I can't believe the actions of some of our top pros. They should have side jobs modelling for Pampers." Fuzzy Zxteller"They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken." Walter Hagen"Golf and sex are the only two things you can enjoy without being good at it." Jimmy Demaret"I've seen better swings in a condemned playground." Arnold Palmer on Bob Hope

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 1995

About the author

Dr. Myles Dungan (PhD Trinity College, Dublin, 2012) is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster and is also Programme Director of the annual Hinterland Festival in Kells, Co. Meath. He currently presents the weekly RTE Radio 1 programme The History Show, writes a weekly column (‘Fake Histories’) for the RTE Radio 1 Drivetime programme, and has worked as presenter of various RTE radio and TV programmes for the last thirty years (Five Seven Live, Rattlebag, Prime Time). He is an Adjunct Lecturer in the UCD School of History and is the recipient of two Fulbright Awards. He has taught Irish history in UCD, Trinity College and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than a dozen books on Irish and American history (including Irish Voices from the Great War, How the Irish Won the West and Mr. Parnell’s Rottweiler). In 1985 he co-founded the Dublin Film Festival with film critic Michael Dwyer. He is now masquerading as a novelist