Junior Golfers

Cut policy on PGA Tour amended again
Associated Press

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - The PGA Tour amended its divisive cut policy, giving players on the cut line one more day of competition to separate themselves from the bottom of the pack.

Starting this week at the Honda Classic, the tour will return to a traditional 36-hole cut for the top 70 and ties. If more than 78 players make the cut, there will be another cut to the top 70 and ties after the third round.

"On the surface, that sounds like doing the same thing over again," commissioner Tim Finchem said Tuesday. "But it's really not, because the field spreads."

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Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ~Grantland Rice


Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ~John Updike


It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. ~Robert Lynd


Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ~A.A. Milne


Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. ~P.G. Wodehouse, A Mixed Threesome, 1922


I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser. ~Arnold Palmer


Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears. ~Bobby Jones


I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right. ~Ben Crenshaw


Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. ~Arthur Daley


Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it. ~Ted Ray, Golf - My Slice of Life, 1972


The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes. ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1975


If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. ~Paul Gallico


Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her. ~Val Doonican


Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. ~Author Unknown


It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ~Bruce McCall


Forget your opponents; always play against par. ~Sam Snead


If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. ~Horace G. Hutchinson


They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ~Gardner Dickinson


I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ~Will Rogers


If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ~Sam Snead


Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth


What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ~Arnold Palmer


The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ~Phyllis Diller


Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour. ~Author Unknown


A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood. ~Author Unknown, plagiarized from the Samuel Johnson quotation "It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the priveleges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood," which was not written about golf (Thanks, Frank Lynch)


Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. ~P.J. O'Rourke


The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. ~Author Unknown


If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. ~Dean Martin


Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's. ~Grantland Rice


Golf is a good walk spoiled. ~Mark Twain


I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ~G.K. Chesterton


They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it. ~Tommy Bolt, about the tempers of modern players


If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. ~Joey Adams


Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole in one. ~Martha Beckman


When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit. ~Author Unknown


I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced. ~Attributed to both Miller Barber and Lee Trevino


Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners. ~Henry Beard, Golfing, 1985


Golf is life. If you can't take golf, you can't take life. ~Author Unknown


In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. ~Ken Harrelson


If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? ~Larry Nelson


Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom. ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1967


If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his strokes. It would be justifiable homicide if he wound up his pitiable exhibition by applying his niblick to your head. ~Harry Vardon


A passion, an obsession, a romance, a nice acquaintanceship with trees, sand, and water. ~Bob Ryan


Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass. ~Bob Hope


I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart. ~Brent Musburger


Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course. ~Lee Trevino


Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective. ~Huxtable Pippey


I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted. ~Author Unknown


They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken. ~Raymond Floyd

Success in anything is hardly possible without faith, and this is true of success in golf. One way to develop golfing faith is to study experts.

Such watching builds up confidence that difficult shots can be made and that normal shots should be made. This causes many golfers to improve spontaneously, simply from the psychological lift that comes from a change in his attitude towards what can be done. Sometimes the improvement is permanent.

Golf is a projection of life, and there are times in life when it is better to be realistically unrealistic. It is best for the individual golfer to believe that there is no limit to what he can do, for it is by such beliefs that he can continuously surpass himself.

It is also best for the game of golf if all of us have faith that we can excel, though obviously everyone cannot be tops in a competitive game. The stimulus of this faith acting upon millions of golfers will help raise the level of present play. In the raising of this level, we shall experience the pleasure that comes when we share in the excitement of witnessing original methods break through physical and psychological barriers to new records.

If a golfer cannot believe that he can be best, he must believe that he can be better. Even such a limited faith can lead him step by step to a brand of golf he might never have believed possible.

No Transfer Of Training

In previous generations, it was believed that the mind that was trained in one field would automatically be better fitted to do other things also. For instance, it was thought that training in mathematics would help you with Greek, that a good billiard player would automatically be an excellent putter, and that a polo player would have no difficulty in learning such a similar game as golf.

Unfortunately, this is not true. Many experiments have shown that each new type of learning is almost always different from all other types. When there is some similarity, a portion of what one learns in one skill or game will carry on to the next, but this is not usual.

There is one kind of learning in which substantial "transfer" can occur. This is the field of attitudes and principles. If I had attacked the problem of learning checkers with the same attitude I had toward chess, and if I had applied basic psychological principles to the process of learning, the results would have been approximately the same.

All this comes under the general rule of "no transfer of training," which when understood will help us avoid wasting time by practicing something which will not be of golfing benefit. In this connection, it is likely that there are few, if any, exercises that will materially assist the golfer.

The practical application of this means that practice will not be efficient unless we practice the very thing we wish to learn, and unless we practice it under circumstances that duplicate precisely all conceivable factors that apply to the golfing problem. We see, as developing from this principle, that medal and match play, winter and summer play, friendly and competitive golf, windy weather and calm weather, flat or hilly courses, and indoor play all present changes in the golfing situation which the golfer has to learn as new skills.

If we are thinking of individual shots, we see then that the ideal would be to practice a shot at the very point on the course and almost at the same time that it was missed. This is not practical, but he who is most careful in seeing that his practice shots duplicate his playing shots will learn the game most quickly.

Remember to believe at all times that you can become a better player, and then practice every shot as a new skill and your game will definitely improve.