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Golf humorist George Fuller understands the plight of golfers and pokes fun at their idiosyncrasies in the upcoming book I Golf, Therefore I Am-Nuts! Former editor in chief of Links-The Best of Golf magazine and founder of Golf Living magazine, Fuller has contributed to many respected newspapers and magazines, including Robb Report, the Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, Golf magazine, Travel & Leisure Golf, Links-The Best of Golf magazine, ...
Quick, give me the most familiar name in golf. Legendary golf professional Tommy Armour, less amused than Lardner by the concept of a do-over, was quoted in 1959 as saying, "When I first learned of a Mulligan in American golf I was astonished." My dictionary lists only Mulligan stew, an Irish beef concoction that doesn’t seem to have much to do with golf (even though beefing on a golf course is an integral part of the game), and Gerry Mulligan, the great jazz musician who also has no ...
Good golfers are typically the ones who practice, who enjoy going to the range a few times a week to groove their swing or work on their putting. They go to golf camps and schools, take weekly lessons, and do those ridiculous practice swinging motions when standing there waiting for an elevator. If most golfers in the United States don’t break 100, as National Golf Foundation studies have consistently revealed, then my 82 last Sunday is pretty remarkable, no?
People often say to me, "I’m going to take up golf-there’s so much business done on the golf course." Not the Rules of Golf, published by the United States Golf Association or the Royal & Ancient, but, you know, the unwritten rules. To be sure, there’s a lot of "client golf" played.