It's still Golf Week here in Niseko so here are some facts about the game of golf:
Golfers who claim they never cheat also lie.
A two-foot putt counts the same as a two-foot drive.
Never wash your ball on the tee of a water hole.
There is no such thing as a friendly wager.
The stages of golf are Sudden Collapse, Radical Change,
Complete Frustration, Slow Improvement, Brief Mastery,
and Sudden Collapse.
The only sure way to get a par is to leave a four-foot
birdie putt two inches short of the hole.
Don't play with anyone who would question a 7.
It's as easy to lower your handicap as it is to reduce
your hat size.
If you really want to be better at golf, go back and take it
up at a much earlier age.
If your driver is hot, your putter will be ice cold; if you
can hit your irons, you will top your woods; if you are keeping
your right elbow tucked in, your head will come up.
Progress in golf consists of two steps forward and 26.6 miles
backward.
One good shank deserves another.
It takes 17 holes to really get warmed up.
No golfer ever swung too slowly.
No golfer ever played too fast.
One birdie is a hot streak.
No matter how badly you are playing, it's always possible to
play worse.
Whatever you think you're doing wrong is the one thing you're
doing right.
Any change works for three holes.
The odds of hitting a duffed shot increase by the square of
the number of people watching.
Never take lessons from your father.
Never teach golf to your wife.
Never play your son for money.
Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your mind
during your swing.
The less skilled the player, the more likely he is to share his
ideas about the golf swing.
It's surprisingly easy to hole a 50-foot putt when you lie 10.
The statute of limitation on forgotten strokes is two holes.
Bets lengthen putts and shorten drives.
Confidence evaporates in the presence of fairway water.
It takes considerable pressure to make a penalty stroke adhere
to a scorecard.
It's not a gimme if you're still away.
The more your opponent quotes the rules, the greater the
certainty that he cheats.
Always limp with the same leg for the whole round.
The rake is always in the other trap.
The wind is in your face on 16 of the 18 holes.
Nothing straightens out a nasty slice quicker than a sharp
dogleg to the right.
The rough will be mown tomorrow.
The ball always lands where the pin was yesterday.
It always takes at least five holes to notice that a club is
missing.
The nearest sprinkler head will be blank.
Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make
two triple bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the
universe.
You can hit a 2-acre fairway 10 percent of the time and a 2 inch
branch 90%of the time.
Out of bounds is always on the right, for right handers.
The practice green is either half as fast or twice as fast as all
the other greens.
No one with funny head covers ever broke par.
The lowest numbered iron in your bag will always be impossible to
hit.
Your straightest iron shot of the day will be exactly one club
short.
No matter how far its shaft extends, a ball retriever is always a
foot too short to reach the ball.
If you seem to be hitting your shots straight on the driving
range, it's probably because you're not aiming at anything.
A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours.
The only thing you can learn from golf books is that you can't
learn anything from golf books, but you have to read an awful
lot of golf books to learn it.
Thanks to Terry Galan and Derek from Niseko Toursim for these.
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