America Supports You: Golfers Say Game Good for Vets’ Bodies, Minds

America Supports You ^ | Samantha L. Quigley

[DirtyPigpen]

A golf course is a wasted rifle range!!

[Badeye]

Good idea on the part of those doing this.

That said, last time I played golf, I remembered quite a few other four letter words that better describe my experience.....(chuckle)

[SandRat]

magic golf words????

[Badeye]

Indeed they are ‘magical’.

They cause my composure to disappear completely.....(chuckle)

[SandRat]

playing pasture pool can do that.

[ConorMacNessa]

Golf = a game played with implements ill-suited to the purpose.

[RichInOC]

Especially if there are anti-war protests downrange.

“I gotta work on my game.”
“No, no, no, don’t think of it as work. The whole point is just to enjoy yourself.”

[SandRat]

Someone told me that Golf is started as an acronym that originally meant Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.

[Badeye]

At one point I noted my dogs like chasing balls....but I don’t, which is why I carry a couple of DOZEN when I play.....LOL!

distance isn’t a problem....I can drive the leetle white ball 240 yards.

Direction however, is wildly overrated in my opinion.

And Irons? If there is every a real world example of liberalism, its found in a game requiring the use of Irons.

[BluH2o]

Golf ... a great way to spoil an otherwise perfect day.

[ConorMacNessa]

golf

1457, Scot. gouf, usually taken as an alteration of M.Du. colf, colve “stick, club, bat,” from P.Gmc. *kulth- (cf. O.N. kolfr “clapper of a bell,” Ger. Kolben “mace, club”). The game is from 14c., the word is first mentioned (along with fut-bol) in a 1457 Scot. statute on forbidden games.

[subterfuge]

Well you know what golf spelled backwards is, right?

[Don Corleone]

A golf course is a wasted rifle range!!

Not the way I hit 'em!

[BluH2o]

The reason for eighteen holes in golf and not 16 or 21, or some other number? Back in 1857 in Scotland it was determined a gentleman golfer should have a shot of ‘fine Scotch’ after completing each hole. In a fifth of Scotland’s best there are precisely eighteen shots ... thus eighteen holes. Now you know the rest of the story.

[GOP Poet]

ping! :-)

[PurpleMan]

It’s called “golf” ‘cause all the other four-letter words were taken.

[tweakDU]

I hit the ball so far left, I have to go right to get it.

[Redleg Duke]

Douglas Bader, the "Legless Ace" of the RAF in WWII learned golf after the war. Because both of his legs were artificial, he couldn't compensate for the swing with his ankles and he initially would fall over. We developed the most perfectly balanced golf swing which enabled him to remain standing. He loved golf and played it until his death in 1982.

Golf would be great for these folks! They already know the vocabulary. And remember, "Golf isn't a matter of life or death, it is much more important than that!"

[Redleg Duke]

“He”, not “We”. Sorry about that, Chief!