Showing posts with label Golf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Golf. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 August 2018

And don't send Jesus. This is no job for a boy

During a competition at Deal [Viscount Castlerosse] buried his ball in a bunker: the crowd that gathered to see how he would extricate it watched as he cried to the skies, 'Oh God, come down and help me with this shot. And don't send Jesus. This is no job for a boy.'

A. Tinniswood, The long weekend (2016), 302

Monday, 6 June 2011

T'Hami at this time played golf to a handicap of four

T'hami [the Pasha of Marrakesh] at this time played golf to a handicap of four. (It is illogical, but strange, that the image of an amateur golf champion should be so hard to reconcile with that of an owner of active dungeons.)

G. Maxwell, Lords of the Atlas (1966), 200