The other Lee - the Mexican one…
Jul 09 Posted in Golf News, Golf Quotes by GoKartYes we love Lee Westwood too, but it’ll take him a while to equal Mr. Trevino in terms of quips and general hell-lets-not-take-it-too-seriously-(but-win-anyway)-ness.
“I thought I’d blown it at the seventeenth green when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican” (after he won the Open at Muirfield in ’72)
“How do you do, Mr. Prime Minister – ever shake hands with a Mexican before?” (on meeting Edward Heath)
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Bring me the head of Sergio Garcia (it’s only a book)
May 10 Posted in Golf Quotes by GoKartHere’s the third of our extracts from Tom Cox’s ‘Bring me the head of Sergio Garcia’. Thoughts of pro golf are proving to be irresistible…
“I suppose it’s possible that, had things not happened the way they did that weekend, all this “Should I have a go at being a pro?’ might have drifted away, only to be remembered as a brief, fading-youth-related freak-out. Or maybe not. All I know is that the day following my party, after the final sleepover guests had staggered away, I had a visceral urge to hit some shots. (more…)
Add a commentA spot of Masterful trivia to get us in the mood…
Apr 07 Posted in Golf News, Golf Quotes by GoKartJack and the Masters;
15 top five finishes
22 top ten finishes
29 top twenty five finishes. He’s the man…
Lowest scores in a round at the Masters are by Nick Price, with a 63 in the 3rd round in ‘86, along with Greg Norman’s first round 63 in ‘96. (more…)
Add a commentThe further Adventures of Tom Cox
Apr 03 Posted in Golf Quotes by GoKartThe second of our extracts of Tom Cox’s book; ‘Bring me the head of Sergio Garcia’. Tom, after golf obsessed teenage years and a long layoff, gets lured back into the game and finds he’s still a halfway decent player. Maybe halfway decent enough to have a go at being a pro…
“I’d seen older friends go through similar epiphanies. Upon reaching thirty, it had suddenly dawned on them that, no, at sixteen stone, with a mortgage and a steady job in the civil service, perhaps they weren’t going to fulfil that dream of playing on the right wing for Nottingham Forest after all. My predicament, however, was slightly different. Footballers (goalkeepers and Teddy Sheringham excepted) may be washed up at thirty, but, as of May 2005. the average age of the top fifty players in golf’s world rankings was 32.06. I actually had two full years until I was due to hit my peak! (more…)
Add a comment“I don’t look like I should play golf….”
Mar 18 Posted in Blog, Golf Quotes by GoKart…says Tom Cox, our favourite golf writer; author of ‘Nice Jumper’ and ‘Bring me the head of Sergio Garcia’.
Tom has very kindly given us permission to feature sections of his books here on the blog. Not as a substitute for going and and buying them of course, but more to whet your appetite for golfing fodder during dark evenings and sideways rain afternoons.
Tom is rather an unusual golfer, as you’ll gather from his writing. Discovering golf in his early teens (’Nice Jumper’), he abruptly veered off the fairway and gave up when success was a short putt away. After eight years in denial of his addiction, the game proved impossible to resist and he was back swinging dervishly, with a degree of success that pointed him towards the pro ranks, just to see what would happen (’Bring me the head…’). We won’t tell you the outcome, you’ll have to read it…And if you want to read it quicker than our regular excerpts allow, you can get both books on Amazon here.
So settle down, and here’s a bit of a scene setter for Mr.Cox’s great adventure in ‘Sergio’;
“Sometimes I think none of this would have happened if I hadn’t met Jerry. At other times I think it was all down to the most perfect eight-iron of my life, struck one idyllic summer evening on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. At other times I just blame it all on Sergio Garcia. (more…)
Add a commentQuote from David C. from Crickhowell
Jan 31 Posted in Customer comment, Golf Quotes by admin“I cannot honestly say that the GoKart has improved my golf. What I can say is that it has greatly increased the pleasure I get from the standard of golf which I am still playing.”
Thank you David. We’re glad you like the trolley, now if you’d just loosen your grip a tad, take it back slow, pause at the top and finish high, you’re all sorted.
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