If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.

Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

A driving range is the place where golfers go to get all the good shots out of their system.

Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.