In Golf, Humiliations Are The Essence Of

Like A Christening, A Wedding, A Graduation Ceremony, A Holy War, A Revolutioneven?a Fireworksdisplay, Agaudy Promise Of What Life Ought To Be, Not Life Itself.

When That Happens [the Demise Of Golf], Old Men Will Furtively Beckon To Their Sons And, Like Fugitives From The Guillotine Recalling The Elegant Orgies At The Court Of Louis Xv, Will Recite The Glories Of Portmarnock And Merion, Of The Road Hole At St. Andrews, The Sixth At Seminole, The Eighteenth At Pebble Beach. They Will Take Out This Volume From Its Secret Hiding Place And They Will Say: "there Is No Question, Son, That These Were Unholy Places In An Evil Age. Unfortunately, I Had A Whale Of A Time."

I Believe Hollywood Is The Most Effective And Disastrous Propaganda Factory There Has Ever Been In The History Of Human Beings.

I Think It Was Roger Fry Who First Coined What He Took To Be A Final Definition Of A Work Of Art, Whether It Was A Painting, Building, Poem Or Hepplewhite Chair. He Said That The Best Works Of Art Are Finished Products That Preserve 'a Valuable State Of Mind'.

Americans Are Less Mystical About What Produced Their Inland Or Meadow Courses; They Are The Product Of The Bulldozerm Rotary Ploughs, Mowers, Sprinkler Systems And Alarmingly Generous Wads Of Folding Money.