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Subject:   THE LANGUAGE OF GOLF.
 
A nun is sitting with her Mother Superior chatting.

"I used some horrible language this week and feel absolutely terrible about it."

"When did you use this awful language?" asks the elder.

"Well, I was golfing and hit an incredible drive that looked like it was going to go over 280 yards, but it struck a phone line that was hanging over the fairway and fell straight down to the ground after going only about 100 yards."

"Is that when you swore?"

"No, Mother," says the nun. "After that, a squirrel ran out of the bushes and grabbed my ball in its mouth and began to run away."

"Is THAT when you swore?" asks the Mother Superior again.

"Well, no." says the nun. "You see, as the squirrel was running, an eagle came down out of the sky, grabbed the squirrel in his talons and began to fly away!"

"Is THAT when you swore?" asks the amazed elder nun.

"No, not yet. As the eagle carried the squirrel away in its claws, it flew near the green and the squirrel dropped my ball."

"Did you swear THEN?" asked Mother Superior, becoming impatient.

"No, because the ball fell on a big rock, bounced over the sand trap, rolled onto the green, and stopped about six inches from the hole."

The two nuns were silent for a moment.

Then Mother Superior sighed and said, "You missed the f***ing putt, didn't you ?"

-oOo-

The husband and wife were playing on the ninth green when she collapsed.

"Please dear, I need help," she gasped.

The husband ran off saying, "I'll go get some help."

A little while later he returned, picked up his club and began to line up his putt.

His wife, on the ground, raised up her head and said, "I may be dying and you're taking your putt?"

"Don't worry dear. I found a doctor on the second hole who said he'd come and help you."

"The second hole? When is he coming?"

"Hey! I told you not to worry," he said, practice stroking his putt. "Everyone's already agreed to let him play through."

-oOo-

Man and woman at breakfast table, she having cup of coffee, he reading newspaper. Wife to husband: "Honey, if I die before you will you remarry?" 

Husband, quietly putting paper down, a little surprised, replies, "Well, we have had a good marriage and marriage is a good institution; so, yes, I'd probably remarry." 

He goes back to reading the paper, she gets another cup of coffee and after a few minutes, asks: "Honey, if I die before you and you remarry, would you bring her to live in our house?" 

He lowers the paper slowly, thinks for a second and says:  "Well, we worked hard to pay off the mortgage and it would be silly to move some place else so, yes, I think I would bring her to live here." 

He returns to his paper, a few minutes pass and she asks:  "Honey, if I die before you and you remarry and you bring her to live here in our house, would you let her use my golf clubs?"   "Don't be ridiculous," he says as he slams down the paper, "she's a lefty!" 

One mid-afternoon on a sunny day, a golfer teed up his ball.  After a few practice swings, he steps up to his ball and gets ready to drive the first hole.  Just before he swings, a woman in a wedding gown comes running up from the car park.  She's got tears streaming down her face.  Just as she reaches the raised tee, she screams out, "I can't believe it! How could you do that?"  The golfer calmly takes a swing and drives the ball straight down the fairway.  He looks at the woman, as he puts his driver back in his bag and says, "Hey...I said only if it's raining" 

-oOo-

Tom sits in clubhouse bar thinking about his next extra-marital affair. Deep in thought about the subject he absentmindedly starts thinking aloud. "Not worth it", he muttered "never as good as you hoped -  Expensive and above all drives the wife berserk."    A friend who was sitting close by at the time and overheard Tom's words leaned across and said  "Come on Tom, you knew what to expect when you took up golf."

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-oOo-

A man was stranded on a desert island for 10 years. One day a beautiful girl swims to shore in a wet suit. 

Man: "Hi! Am I ever happy to see you."! 

Girl: "Hi! It seems like you've been here along time. How long has it been since you've had a cigarette?" 

Man: "It's been ten years!" 

With this information the girl unzips a slot on the arm of her wet suit and gives the man cigarette. 

Man: "Oh thank you so much!" 

Girl: "So tell me how long its been since you had a drink?" 

Man: "It's been ten years" The girl unzips a little longer zipper on her wet suit and comes out with a flask of whiskey and gives the man a drink. 

Man: "Oh. thank you so much. You are like a miracle"! 

Finally the girl starts to unzip the front of her wet suit and asks the man leadingly, "So tell me then, how long has it been since you played around??

" The man looked at her and said excitedly: "Oh, my God, don't tell me you've got a set of golf clubs in there too?" 

-oOo-

"Caddy, why do you keep looking at your watch?" asked the curious golfer.  "It's not a watch, sir.  It's a compass." 

-oOo-

Two golfers were sitting at the 19th hole discussing their games this year when one says to the other, " My game is so bad this year I had to have my Ball Retriever REGRIPPED !" 

 

-oOo-

There are two guys out on the course that come up on a couple of ladies playing slow. One of the guys walks up towards the ladies to ask if they can play through. About halfway there he turns around and comes back and says to his friend, "I can't go up there and talk to them, that is my wife and my mistress." So his friend replies, "I'll go up and ask them." When he is halfway there he turns around and comes back and states to his friend. "Small world". 

-oOo-

 

Husband and wife were playing in the mixed foursomes. He hit a great drive down the middle - she sliced the second shot into a copse of trees. Unfazed he played a brilliant recovery shot which went onto the green a metre from the pin. She poked at the putt and sent it five metres beyond the pin. He lined up the long putt and sank it. To his wife he said, "We'll have to do better. That was a bogey five." "Don't blame me," she snapped, "I only took two of them." 

-oOo-

Fred had tried to be particularly careful about his language as he played golf with his parish priest. But on the twelfth hole, when he twice failed to hit out of a sand trap, he lost his resolve and let fly with a string of expletives. The preacher felt obliged to respond. "I have observed," said he in a calm voice, "that the best golfers do not use foul language." "I guess not, said Fred, "what the hell do they have to curse about?"

-oOo-

The man hit his drive behind a barn and could not see the green. His wife said, I'll open the doors on both ends of the barn and you can hit the ball through the barn to the green. When the husband did this he hit his wife in the temple and killed her on the spot. 

About six months later the husband was playing golf with a friend and sure enough he hit his ball behind the same barn. His friend said, I'll open the doors on both ends of the barn and you can hit the ball through the barn to the green. 

The husband said, I don't think I can do this and I hate this hole. His friend said, it's not that hard and why do you hate this hole? 

The husband said, after bowing his head, the last time I played this hole I got an 8!

-oOo-


A couple of women were playing golf one sunny afternoon. The first of the twosome teed off and watched in horror as the ball headed directly toward a foursome of men playing the next hole. Sure enough, the ball hit one of the guys, and he immediately clasped his hands together at his crotch, fell to the ground, and proceeded to roll around in agony. 

The woman rushed over and immediately began to apologize. She then explained that she was a physical therapist and offered to help ease his pain. "Ummph, ooh, nnooo, I'll be alright... I'll be fine in a few minutes", he replied as he remained in the fetal position still clasping his hands together at his crotch. But she persisted, and he finally allowed her to help him. 

She gently took his hands away and laid them to the side, loosened his pants and put her hands inside, beginning to massage him. "Does that feel better?", she asked. "Ohhh, Yeah....It feels really great", he replied, "But my thumb still hurts like hell!" 

-oOo-

Once, the club duffer challenged the local golf pro to a match with a £100 bet on the side. "But," said the duffer, "since you're obviously much better than I, to even it a bit you have to spot me two 'gotchas'."

The golf pro didn't know what a 'gotcha' was but he went along with it.

And off they went. Coming back to the clubhouse, the rest of the club members were amazed to see the golf pro paying the duffer £100.

"What happened?" asked one of the members.

"Well," said the pro, "I was teeing up for the first hole and, as I brought the club down, the jerk stuck his hand between my legs and grabbed me while yelling 'Gotcha!' 

Have you ever tried to play 18 holes of golf waiting for the second 'gotcha'?"

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An older gentleman often used to go golfing by himself and would team up with anyone who was available. One day he was teamed up with a lovely blond lady. They very much enjoyed their round together and met quite often afterward for a game. Finally the gentleman decided he had fallen in love with the young lady and asked her to marry him. 

She said "But you don't know anything about me. You know, I am a hooker."

 He said "That's OK - just straighten out your wrist and move your thumb a little". 


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Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods are playing the 16th hole, when Tiger's tee shot lands behind a huge, 100 foot fir tree. Tiger looks at Arnie and says, "How would you play this one? Lay up and take the extra stroke?"
Arnold replies: "When I was your age, I'd just play right over this tree."
Tiger, not wanting to be shown up by ol' Arnold Palmer, proceeds to hit the ball high, but not high enough. It bounces off the tree and lands out of bounds. Tiger, really ticked at this point, asks Arnold how he EVER hit a ball over that tree.
Arnold replied: "Well, when I was your age, that tree was only three feet tall."

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Hitting the driving range before teeing off is not recommended for the bad golfer. The reason being, why become so frustrated from hitting other fairways before your round even begins? There is nothing worse than addressing your ball on the first tee, with three other foursomes watching, knowing, based on what you've been doing at the range, you will shank your tee shot into the parking area.

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The bad tempered golfer bought a new set of Great Big Bertha Woods.

 After playing with them for a couple of rounds he returned to his pro shop and told the pro that these were the best clubs he had ever played with. 

In fact "I can throw these clubs 40 yards further than my old ones" he told the pro. 

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Stretching is a valuable pre-round routine. But as you know, when you're recovering from the drinking binge you and your buddies went on the night before, the only thing that will be stretched is the time it takes you to drag your drunken butt from the cart to your ball each time. Here is the best stretching exercise for the bad golfer. Kneel down and, with a 3-iron in your right hand, extend it a far as possible and drag it back towards you. Repeat this ten times. This exercise will stretch out the upper back muscles so that when you're attempting to retrieve your ball from under the thick bushes you won't pull a muscle.

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 A golfer hits a wicked slice off the tee that ricochets through the trees and into the next fairway narrowly missing another golfer. When the first golfer gets to his ball he is greeted by his unintended victim who angrily tells him of the near miss. "I'm sorry, I didn't have time to yell fore." says the first golfer. "That's funny" replies the second, "you had plenty of time to yell 'SH*T!'"

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Practicing putting is something that is not recommended for Rabbits prior to teeing off.  First of all, the two other guys aiming for the same cup you are will get a little ticked off when you knock their balls off target with your feeble attempt.  The other is when you see that after putting 20 or so times your putts are consistently coming within 12 inches of the cup.  The only problem with that is it is not the cup at which you were aiming!   This only serves as a prelude as to how you will destroy your round on the greens all day.   It's always better to have the possibility of only triple-bogeying than knowing you will be praying for only a four-putt on each hole.

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One bright Sunday morning, Jim was addressing his ball and going through all of his usual pre shot routines when a voice came over the clubhouse loudspeaker - " would the golfer on the Ladies tee please play from the men's tee!"

Ignoring this call, Jim continued with his shot routine. The call was repeated, "Would the golfer on the Ladies tee please play from the men's tee!!" 

This time Jim was annoyed. "Would the announcer kindly shut up and let me play my second shot!"