Sam Snead had perhaps the most stylish solution to the balding golfer: A snappy fedora that became his signature style, so much so that many never knew he was tonsorially bereft. Steve Rushin Read Quote
Golf tough guys – like movie tough guys – are almost always inscrutable, just beyond our full understanding. Steve Rushin Read Quote
In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power. Steve Rushin Read Quote
Though we endow them with human features – heads, faces, heels, toes – golf clubs are profoundly inhuman tools. Steve Rushin Read Quote
Putting is so difficult, so universally vexing, that the best the pros can do is tell us how to miss. ‘Miss it on the pro side,’ they say, meaning miss it above the hole. I can’t even do that consistently. I miss it on the pro side. I miss it on the amateur side. I miss it on both sides of the clown’s mouth. Steve Rushin Read Quote
I can’t putt. The reasons are infinite. When lining up a putt, I can’t remember if the ball always breaks to the ocean or to the valley or away from Pinnacle Peak. And because I took up the game in Minnesota, in what is often called Middle America, I also grew up asking, ‘To which ocean does it break?’ Steve Rushin Read Quote
The only thing wider than my family’s mean streak is my family’s cheap streak. Steve Rushin Read Quote
Scarcity drives up demand, and the short golf season in Minnesota makes residents of that state mad for the sport. It’s the same reason ancient Scandinavians worshiped the sun: because they saw so little of it. Steve Rushin Read Quote
