golf

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1. Addressed his ball as if he were stroking a cat —P. G. Wodehouse Wodehouse, known for his humorous golf stories, not surprisingly coined many funny golf similes.
2. The ball breasting the hill like some untamed jack-rabbit of the California prairie —P. G. Wodehouse
3. Before making a shot, he would inspect his enormous bag of clubs and take out one after another, slowly, as if he were playing spillikens —P. G. Wodehouse
4. Brooded over each shot like one whose heart is bowed down by bad news from home —P. G. Wodehouse
5. Drove as if he were cracking a whip —P. G. Wodehouse
6. Golf is like a love affair: if you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun. If you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart —Arnold Daly, Reader’s Digest, November, 1933
7. He stood over his ball, pawing at it with his driving-iron like a cat investigating a tortoise —P. G. Wodehouse
8. He whiffed that baby [the ball] so bad he torqued like a licorice twist and found his head looking straight behind him like a cockatoo —Joseph Wambaugh
9. I’m playing like Tarzan and scoring like Jane —Chi Chi Rodriguez quoted in the 1987 Masters tournament by Dick Schaap
10. A man … with thirty-eight golfless years behind him … loses all sense of proportion [when he takes up the game] … like a fly that happens to be sitting on the wall of the dam just when the crack comes —P. G. Wodehouse
11. Scooped with his mashie as if he were ladling soup —P. G. Wodehouse
12. Stood addressing his ball [to tee off] like Lot’s wife just after she had been turned into a pillar of salt —P. G. Wodehouse
13. That poor golf ball … perched on the tee, as naked as a quarterback without a helmet —Dave Anderson, New York Times/Sports of the Times, May 11, 1987
14. Wielded his midiron like one killing snakes —P. G. Wodehouse
15. With infinite caution, like one suspecting a trap of some kind, he selected clubs from his bulging bag —P. G. Wodehouse