[Sidney Lanier]

"Golf is a good walk spoiled." --MARK TWAIN

"Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort." --STEPHEN LEACOCK

"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States." --H. L. MENCKEN

"A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood." --SAMUEL JOHNSON

"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles." --G. K. CHESTERTON