News:

Welcome to the Golf Club Atlas Discussion Group!

Each user is approved by the Golf Club Atlas editorial staff. For any new inquiries, please contact us.


John Kavanaugh

How to write about golf really bad..
« on: September 20, 2006, 11:59:36 AM »
Recently I used the terms "knows to a tee" and "paper tiger"...any other really bad golf terms you can think of to make our writing more interesting.

David Stamm

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2006, 12:07:11 PM »
I'm going to try to be a straight shooter here and not try to tee any one off, but if I do, that's par for the course with all the sandbaggers here! ;)
"The object of golf architecture is to give an intelligent purpose to the striking of a golf ball."- Max Behr

Adam Clayman

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2006, 12:57:51 PM »
Pardner, I can get meaner than a junkyard dog if'n I don't hole out after my first cup o' coffee.  I salute you and your efforts to bring all this to my attention. As well as the value of a good shot.
"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing your whole life." - Mickey Mantle

John Kavanaugh

Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2006, 01:18:59 PM »
Adam,

Is the above a direct quote from Matt Ward...

Adam Clayman

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2006, 01:23:59 PM »
I have no idea about Mr. Ward's morning habits.

Maybe I misunderstood the thread.
"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing your whole life." - Mickey Mantle

Mark_Rowlinson

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2006, 01:35:10 PM »
Well, Jules and I were playing the Queens' Course - oh, it's so madly gay.  We just pooped off to the first tee - I do like a swift poop after breakfast - and I asked him, in all innocence, what ball he was playing with.  I couldn't repeat his answer, but it made me come over all doolally.  So I took my cover off my driver - yes, really, in full view of the public - and bent down to insert a tee peg.  Now it was Jules's turn to get excited.  When I swing I keep my little bottie quite still with a lovely straight back - it's easier that way.  Unfortunately it tends to make me a bit of a hooker and on this occasion my swish was a bit too vigorous - it was the excitement, you know.  I let out a little yelp as the club struck my ball and it flew off into the distance.  Anyway, we found it, put it in ice and that nice surgeon at the infirmary sewed it back on.  We've given up golf now and stick to billiards - pocket billiards.

Bill_McBride

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2006, 01:39:43 PM »
Well, Jules and I were playing the Queens' Course - oh, it's so madly gay.  We just pooped off to the first tee - I do like a swift poop after breakfast - and I asked him, in all innocence, what ball he was playing with.  I couldn't repeat his answer, but it made me come over all doolally.  So I took my cover off my driver - yes, really, in full view of the public - and bent down to insert a tee peg.  Now it was Jules's turn to get excited.  When I swing I keep my little bottie quite still with a lovely straight back - it's easier that way.  Unfortunately it tends to make me a bit of a hooker and on this occasion my swish was a bit too vigorous - it was the excitement, you know.  I let out a little yelp as the club struck my ball and it flew off into the distance.  Anyway, we found it, put it in ice and that nice surgeon at the infirmary sewed it back on.  We've given up golf now and stick to billiards - pocket billiards.

I'm howling here!  8)

Garland Bayley

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2006, 02:08:40 PM »
Mark,

I thought this thread was to be about bad writing.
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

RJ_Daley

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2006, 03:44:00 PM »
Was that a passage from Dev Emmett's autobio?
No actual golf rounds were ruined or delayed, nor golf rules broken, in the taking of any photographs that may be displayed by the above forum user.

Marty Bonnar

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2006, 05:51:51 PM »
'How to write about golf really bad'...!?!?!

Hellfire, Kavanaugh, you DID have the benefit of a college ejumacashun, didn't you? Or are we to assume that Amerenglish has evolved(eh?) to the stage that it no longer bears any resemblance to the language of its origin?

English 101:
"How to write REALLY BADLY about golf".

Paraphrasing, if I may, the immortal words of James Tiberius Kirk: "To boldly split infinitives which no man has split before"... ;)

FBD.
The White River runs dark through the heart of the Town,
Washed the people coal-black from the hole in the ground.

Dan Kelly

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2006, 06:08:14 PM »
Was that a passage from Dev Emmett's autobio?


I just figured something out.

I don't want to know enough about GCA to get the humor in that!  :-*

PS, to FBD: "How to write about golf really bad" has the considerable advantage of being ... funny. Eh?
"There's no money in doing less." -- Joe Hancock, 11/25/2010
"Rankings are silly and subjective..." -- Tom Doak, 3/12/2016

Marty Bonnar

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2006, 06:12:12 PM »

PS, to FBD: "How to write about golf really bad" has the considerable advantage of being ... funny. Eh?
Quote

Dan,
yes but only if you FIRMLY believe that JayKay MEANT IT!!! ;)

Grammatically correct, politically incorrect since 1978,
FBD.
The White River runs dark through the heart of the Town,
Washed the people coal-black from the hole in the ground.

Mark_Rowlinson

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2006, 11:31:48 AM »
FBD - Politically incorrect?  I was asked to sing some Stephen Foster songs at a concert at an American's house on 4th July.  It was quite hard to find a group of songs that were politically correct without bowdlerising them.  

Marty Bonnar

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2006, 11:50:56 AM »
Mark,
Burton Gilliam's version of 'Camptown Races' in reply to the a capella version of 'I get a kick out of you' in Blazing Saddles is one of my all-time favourite funniest movie moments!

Making me titter just thinking of it ;D

FBD.
The White River runs dark through the heart of the Town,
Washed the people coal-black from the hole in the ground.

peter_p

Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2006, 12:51:59 PM »
   Motoring down the entry to Hubbard my suspicion was confirmed, the driving range was close to a half tank of petrol. The club board was bare and it was a stark dormy night. Arrangements for my golf bag carrier were bolluxed,
my tee caddy was a scruffy old one that looked like it had knitted by Martha Stewart on her worst day.
   I stood at the beginning of my round and wondered if the forward tease would intrigue me, or be a Scarlett O'Hara.
My first swing produced a duck, which luckily went to a forward lateral hazard and the kindly official suggested a replay would be allow sooner or later.
   On the way I was in Tiger country and escaped. The I faced an approach which heaved like a copilot. The green area had undergone a transformation, which I later learned was done by the architects Ed Norton and Paul Revere.
Their complex was outstanding. Two sentinel bunkers-Edith and Archie -guarded the front and a gloriaus ridge bisected the green at a diagonal. Only good execution kept you from looking like a meatball.
   The rough was ready for me, much like a highly competitive school system. It was high. I never figured out which is primary or secondary as I was usually in the first cut.

Anthony Butler

  • Karma: +0/-0
Re:How to write about golf really bad..
« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2006, 03:50:02 PM »
Well, Jules and I were playing the Queens' Course - oh, it's so madly gay.  We just pooped off to the first tee - I do like a swift poop after breakfast - and I asked him, in all innocence, what ball he was playing with.  I couldn't repeat his answer, but it made me come over all doolally.  So I took my cover off my driver - yes, really, in full view of the public - and bent down to insert a tee peg.  Now it was Jules's turn to get excited.  When I swing I keep my little bottie quite still with a lovely straight back - it's easier that way.  Unfortunately it tends to make me a bit of a hooker and on this occasion my swish was a bit too vigorous - it was the excitement, you know.  I let out a little yelp as the club struck my ball and it flew off into the distance.  Anyway, we found it, put it in ice and that nice surgeon at the infirmary sewed it back on.  We've given up golf now and stick to billiards - pocket billiards.

What P.G. Wodehouse would read like if he batted from the other side of plate... sorry about the bad baseball writing.
Next!