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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 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 courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country.

Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.

Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together. And the great thing about a scramble, there's less pressure because you don't feel like every shot has to be your shot.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.

Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies. ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.

Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.