Liberal Arts Blog — Rory McIIroy Triumphs At The Masters In Augusta Winning The Green Jacket And Making History
Liberal Arts Blog — Saturday is Sports, Dance, Fitness, and All Things Physical Day
Today’s Topic: Rory McIIroy Triumphs at the Masters in Augusta winning the Green Jacket and Making History
Last Sunday on April 13th, Rory McIlroy made history by becoming only the 6th golfer in history to win a career Grand Slam in golf -which means winning each of the Big Four tournaments — the Masters, the PGA, the US Open and the British Open. The other five are: Ben Hogan (1953), Gary Player (1965), Jack Nicklaus (1966), and Tiger Woods (2000).
To celebrate this momentous moment I have decided to a potpouri of the best things ever said about that game.
If you know of a better quote, please share.
Experts — please chime in. Correct, elaborate, elucidate.
GOLF IS A GOOD WALK SPOILED — Mark Twain
1. “Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.” (Arnold Palmer)
2. “Golf is a game played on a five-inch course — the distance between your ears.” (Bobby Jones)
3. “Success in this game depends less on strength of body than strength of mind and characer.” (Arnold Palmer.”
“THE MOST IMPORTANT SHOT IN GOLF IS THE NEXT ONE” — Ben Hogan
1. “Golf is the loneliest sport. You’re completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself.” (Hale Irwin)
2. “Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.” (Winston Churchill)
3. “Golf is a plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man’s sins.”
THE MORE I PRACTICE THE LUCKIER I GET — Gary Player
1. “The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf. It’s almost a law.” (HG Wells)
2. “Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what your experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.” (Bruce Compton)
3. “I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet.” (Muhammed Ali) Happy Patriots Day! Happy Easter! Happy Passover! Happy Marathon Day! And whatever spring holidays you are celebrating this weekend!
John
FOOTNOTE — Hogan, Nicklaus, Woods — below Hogan’s imagined golf plane. What is the best golf illustration you have ever seen? Is this the closest golf equivalent of Ted Williams’ happy zone batting average matrix?
1. Ben Hogan (1912–1997) wrote the Bible of Golf, “Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf.” He won 9 major championships — tied for fourth of all time.
2. Jack “Golden Bear” Nicklaus (1940 — ) Most major golf championships ever (18).
3. Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods (1975 — ) Second most major championships (16).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_McIlroy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(golf)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hogan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My spin — then periodically review, re-rank, and exchange your list with those you love. I call this the “Orion Exchange” because seven is about as many as any human can digest at a time. Game?
For the last four years of posts organized by theme:
PDF with headlines — Google Drive
ATTACHMENTS BELOW:
#1 A graphic guide to justice (9 metaphors on one page).
#2 “39 Songs, Prayers, and Poems: the Keys to the Hearts of Seven Billion People” — Adams House Senior Common Room Presentation, (11/17/20)
YOUR TURN
Please share the coolest thing you learned this week related to sports, dance, fitness. Or the coolest thing you learned about Sports, Dance, of Fitness in your life — whether on the field, on the dance floor or in the gym, whether from a coach, a parent, a friend, or just your own experimentation.
This is your chance to make someone else’s day. Or even change their life. It’s perhaps a chance to put into words something you have never articulated before. And to cement in your own memory something cool you might otherwise forget. Or to think more deeply than otherwise about something dear to your heart.
