Funniest Figures In Golf
Golf throws up strong reactions. One person may love golf; one person may hate golf. Sometimes that is the very same person, only a few moments apart. Golf is a game that involves lots of time for talk and reflection. As such, it has provided not only the source for, but also the opportunity to express, much humour. So we look at some of the funniest figures in golf.
Joel Dahmen
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Cancer survivor Joel Dahmen has many fans both for the way he supports cancer charities but also for his witty and caustic social media exchanges with his good friend and fellow PGA Tour pro Max Homa and for his self-depreciating sense of humour with lines such as: “Somebody’s got to be the 70th-best golfer in the world… it might as well be me.”
Gary Player
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Gary Player has always had a lot to say on a lot of things, some of it quite wry, such as: “The more I practise the luckier I get,” and “You must work very hard to become a natural golfer,” and “If there’s a golf course in heaven, I hope it’s like Augusta National. I just don’t want an early tee time.”
A.A. Milne
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Winnie The Pooh author AA Milne, whose handicap was in single figures, often golfed three times a week. He played at The Addington, Walton Heath and Royal Wimbledon and, after he moved to Sussex, at Holtye. His work includes the poem The First Tee, which opens:
The year’s at the full and the morn’s at eleven
It’s a wonderful day just straight from Heaven,
And this is a hole I can do in seven
Paul Goydos
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Paul Goydos has been called “one of the most sarcastic, quick-witted, intelligent people you’ll ever meet,” by fellow PGA Tour player Steve Flesch. The general public do not hear much from Goydos, a journeyman pro who won only twice on the PGA Tour, as he was rarely hauled before the microphone. But when he was they get one liners such as how playing Oakland Hills is like “playing Scrabble without the vowels.”
Charles M. Schulz
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Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz was a big fan of Sam Snead and Snead got several mentions in the comic strip….
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