{"id":3281,"date":"2021-05-29T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T04:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:13:45","slug":"tidbits-from-social-media-deep-thoughts-on-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/05\/29\/tidbits-from-social-media-deep-thoughts-on-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"116: Tidbits from Social Media: Deep Thoughts on Golf.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Golf balls are like eggs \u00a0they&#8217;re white. They&#8217;re sold by the dozen &#8230;. and a week later you have to buy more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">A pro-shop gets its name from the fact that you have to have the income of a professional golfer to buy anything in there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #333300;\">It&#8217;s amazing how a golfer who never helps out around the house will replace his divots, repair his ball marks, and rake his sand traps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003300;\">Did you ever notice that it&#8217;s a lot easier to get up at 6:00 a.m. to play golf than at 10:00 to mow the yard or go to church?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\">It takes longer to learn good golf than it does brain surgery. On the other hand, you seldom get to ride around on a cart, drink beer and eat hot dogs while performing brain surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">A good drive on the 18th hole has stopped many a golfer from giving up the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">A good golf partner is perhaps one who&#8217;s always slightly worse than you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">That rake by the sand trap is there for golfers who feel guilty about skipping out on lawn work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">If there&#8217;s a storm rolling in, you&#8217;ll be having the game of your life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;\">If your opponent has trouble remembering whether he shot a six or a seven, he probably shot an eight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">Golf appeals to the child in all of us. This is proven by our frequent inability to count past the number 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">It&#8217;s a simple matter to keep your ball in the fairway if you&#8217;re not choosy about which fairway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">If profanity had any influence on the flight of a ball, most everyone would play better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #3366ff;\">The greatest sound in golf is the Whoosh, Whoosh, Whoosh of your opponent&#8217;s club as he hurls it across the fairway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #333399;\">A recent survey shows that of all jobs, caddies live the longest. They get plenty of fresh air and exercise, and if there&#8217;s ever a medical emergency, a doctor is always nearby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\">For regular updates please register here &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/\">https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Golf balls are like eggs \u00a0they&#8217;re white. They&#8217;re sold by the dozen &#8230;. and a week later you have to buy more. &nbsp; A pro-shop gets its name from the fact that you have to have the income of a professional golfer to buy anything in there. &nbsp; It&#8217;s amazing how a golfer who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/05\/29\/tidbits-from-social-media-deep-thoughts-on-golf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;116: Tidbits from Social Media: Deep Thoughts on Golf..&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,96,63,1],"tags":[70,64,33,59,44,50],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-events","category-golf","category-humour","category-uncategorized","tag-golf","tag-humour","tag-stress","tag-thoughts","tag-values","tag-working-environment"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8590,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/8590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}