“I have always had a drive that pushed me to try for perfection, and golf is a game in which perfection stays just out of reach.” Betsy Rawls, pro golfer
The late Boston Globe sportswriter Ray Fitzgerald once wrote that he would start watching golf when “a player could ‘slash’ a five-iron across another player’s club while he was trying to hit a shot.”
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