Michael,
Your "....line from Golf in The Kingdom" was Agatha McNaughton humouring the boys as they were "...sing(ing) the praises of gowf."
"All those gentlemanly rools, why they're the proper rools of
affection -- all the waitin' and oohin' and ahin' o'er yer shots,
all the talk o' this one's drive and that one's putt and the other
one's gorgeous swing -- what is it all but love? Men lovin' men,
that's what golf is."
Sounds very much as though that was the general tenor of your golfing getaways with your mates!
Cheers Colin