9 Metaphors for golf

John had said golf was a grand game, because more than any other game it showed how many kinds of fool a man could be betwixt his mind and his muscles.

" "I should think golf was a rather funny sort of a game.

" "I should say golf and tennis were just as healthy exercise as haying and picking strawberries.

Golf and archery are popular pastimes in the merry Cotswolds.

"MY DEAR MISS ROBINSON, GOLF'S THE ONLY GAME NOWADAYS FOR THE MEN.

Now that they were alone in a curious renewal of their old intimacy, he permitted it to shine forth in all its fullness, and Merle became pleasantly aware that this sharp-speaking brotherwhere golf was concernedfelt for him something much like worship.

Compelled by a rigid etiquette to silent, unemotional formality, they boil interiorly with contempt for people of the better sort, not only because their golf is usually atrocioussuch as every caddie brilliantly surpasses in his leisure momentsbut because the speech provoked by their inveterate failures is commonly all too human.

Golf, he contends, is a recreation, and the true aim of golf legislation should be to make the game easier, not more difficult; to attract the largest possible number of players and so to keep up the green-fees and pay a decent salary to secretaries and professionals.

To be sure, golf was a hard taskmaster, but with commendable self-denial he did not allow it to interfere with his progress in class.

9 Metaphors for  golf