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Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.

From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

George W. Bush loves golf because it's like the election--low score wins.

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

Gerry Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top.

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Goaltending is to hockey like putting is to golf. It really has no relationship to the rest of the game.

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

Golf and dating don't mix.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.

Golf is a game of coordination, rhythm, and grace; women have these to a high degree.

Golf is a game of misses, and the winners are those who have the best misses

Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.

Golf is a great way for someone to learn discipline, responsibility and sportsmanship.?

Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.

Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

Golf is a game of precision, not strength.

Golf is a lot like sex. It's something you can enjoy all your life. And if you remain an amateur, you get to pick your own playing partners.

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Golf is like 99.9 percent of my life, and then there's school. I don't get much time to go out with my friends.

Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.

Golf is my boyfriend right now.

Golf is not a good walk spoiled. It is becoming a good walk prohibited. Show me the common sense in this and I promise I will relent. But there is no common sense at all in the prohibition of walking.

Golf is played with the arms.

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

Golf giveth and golf taketh away. But it taketh away a hell of a lot more than it giveth.

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.