A Connecticut Golfer on King Arthur’s Course

Title Page About Chapter 1: The “Older” Course Chapter 2: The Round Table Chapter 3: King Arthur’s Call Chapter 4: Mashies, Niblicks, and Cleeks Chapter 5: The Haig Chapter 6: Cilfach through Cathedral Chapter 7: Far Enough through Ffens Chapter 8: The Castle Again (The End) Contact and Links Reader’s Notes

“Well, to be fair,” said Tex, “the legend is that King Arthur built three holes of the golf course, not the castle. It’s not nearly old enough. I mean those ruins are only, what, maybe a thousand years old?”

“It is just as well that the average person in the gallery does not appreciate the emotions to which the competitors are subject; otherwise, we should all be regarded as utter fools.” -Bobby Jones By the time they reached The Round Table, Morgan had decided to surrender to the dream or the psychotic break or…

“I suppose I should have picked up my ball, as most golfers would. I’ve never done that and I intended to show the British that I could take a beating and still smile. I took the beating all right. I trailed fifty-third in a field of fifty-four.” -Walter Hagen  Morgan had climbed into bed half…

“I bear constantly in mind the conviction that the best way to win any important event is to play just as one would play a private round at home, and not endeavor to accomplish the performance of a lifetime. There is such a thing as trying too hard; it begets anxiety, which is usually fatal–especially…

“The mental processes of golfers like Walter Hagen and a few others has been that if their opponents make a great shot, it is not for them to worry about that shot but to make a greater shot themselves and thereby impress upon their opponents that it is no use to try and outdo them.”…

“It has been said that it helps to be stupid in playing golf. That cynical observation is far wide of the mark, although there are some excellent golfers who are not mental giants, as the term is customarily used.” -Tommy Armour It was time to hit away and by tradition The Open champion went first.…

“I was, and am now, a crank about never making a final decision on the club to use until I stood right at the ball, and I always confess to considerable irritation if the caddie hands me a club he thinks I should play, or even asks me to take the club, before I am…

“No man living can make a player keep his eye on the ball, and still this is the underlying secret of successful play. There are times when a golfer can hit a good shot without seeing the ball, but these times are few and far between. It is the very essence of good golf –…