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Someone who walks four miles to hit a ball three inches.
means A person who plays golf, chasing a small ball across a large course with clubs and often with considerable patience for their own failures.
from Golf itself is the puzzle here — the word surfaces in 15th-century Scotland (spelled things like 'gowf'), likely linked to a Scots verb meaning 'to strike or cuff.' Beyond that, its deeper roots trail off into guesswork; the popular story that it's an acronym for 'Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden' is a 20th-century joke, not history. 'Golfer' simply tacks the agent suffix '-er' onto the game's name once it needed a word for the person doing the walking and swinging.
- average score
- most never break 90, forever
- real opponent
- the course, not other players
- equipment spend
- often exceeds actual improvement
- mulligan
- a polite word for cheating