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    David Owen - this is the Golf Digest columnist and New Yorker writer, not the former British foreign minister - welcomes the triage of fair-weather fairway clutter who play only eight times a year. "I say let's get rid of these people, get them off the links" Owen raves. "Let's shrink golf." Full Article at International Herald Tribune
    I say let's get rid of these people, get them off the links
    – David Owen SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 19 months ago
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A day that suits me to a tee
  1. The ordinary golfer watches TV and sees the pros taking forever ... They'd play better if they played faster; they would think less.
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 19 months ago
  2. About 3 million golfers quit playing each year, and slightly fewer than that have been picking it up
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 19 months ago
  3. I don't think the number of golfers has changed, their avidity has changed ... Economic cycles come and go, but golf is the kind of game that ignites people's passions. It's been around for four or five hundred years, it's not a fad. Golf isn't going away.
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 19 months ago
  4. Golf is a game to teach you about the messages from within, about the subtle voices of the body-mind
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 19 months ago
  5. And once you understand them you can more clearly see your 'hamartia,' the ways in which your approach to the game reflects your entire life.
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 19 months ago

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