Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.
Henry Longhurst Quotes
If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
Similar Quotes
Cricket is the greatest game that the wit of man has yet devised.
- Sir Pelham WarnerAdvertising is selling Twinkies to adults.
- Donald R. VanceThe struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompt...
- Herb GoldbergEach generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the ...
- Francis SchaefferEach had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had don...
- Ernst TollerComments on: "Henry Longhurst Quotes: If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while..."
| Birth: | 18th March, 1909 |
| Death: | 21st July, 1978 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Commentator, Journalist, Politician, Writer |
About
Henry Carpenter Longhurst was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. He was a British golf writer and commentator. For 45 years, he was golfing correspondent of the Sunday Times. In 1943, he was elected at a by-election as Conservative MP for Acton in West London, but lost the seat at the 1945 general election. He was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame and will be inducted in September 2017. He played for Cambridge University Golf Club from 1928 to 1931 and was captain in 1931. From the late 1950s to the end of his life, he was BBC Television's senior golf commentator. He wrote several books include: How to Get Started in Golf, Never on Weekdays, My Life and Soft Times, and The Piccadilly World of Golf 1972.
Share with your friends