{"id":80230,"date":"2023-05-22T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=80230"},"modified":"2023-05-21T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:29:56","slug":"qotd-gamesmanship-in-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/05\/22\/qotd-gamesmanship-in-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Gamesmanship in golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>One of the nicest things about the game of golf is that it&#8217;s a gentle one \u2014 no bodies crashing against each other, no feats of strength, no slam-dunks or soaring home runs: just quiet, delicate and deliberate movements.<\/p>\n<p>Which also applies to the subtle art of gamesmanship. No in-your-face screaming &#8220;Bring It On!&#8221; chest-thumping or trying to put your opponent off his shot; just quiet, subtle digs designed to get inside his head to make him change his game, to his disadvantage or your advantage.<\/p>\n<p>I remember once mis-hitting a drive which just managed to stay on the fairway, but only went for about 150 yards \u2014 whereupon my opponent asked disingenuously: &#8220;Does your husband also play golf?&#8221; implying, of course, that I hit like a girl.<\/p>\n<p>And before anyone thinks that this kind of remark is in any way demeaning to women \u2014 it isn&#8217;t, because the <strong>fact<\/strong> of the matter is that women can&#8217;t hit the ball as far as a man can, which is why all golf courses have a &#8220;Ladies Tee&#8221; in each hole, usually many yards closer to the fairway and green than those used by men.<\/p>\n<p>So when Tiger Woods (47) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/article-11762215\/Tiger-Woods-pranks-playing-partner-Justin-Thomas-cheekily-handing-TAMPON.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surreptitiously handed his opponent<\/a> Justin Thomas (29) a tampon after his drive had traveled further than the younger man&#8217;s, everyone knew exactly what he was doing: teasing Thomas, and playing a little gamesmanship.<\/p>\n<p>Kim du Toit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2023\/02\/21\/growing-skin\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Growing Skin&#8221;, <em>Splendid Isolation<\/em><\/a>, 2023-02-21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nicest things about the game of golf is that it&#8217;s a gentle one \u2014 no bodies crashing against each other, no feats of strength, no slam-dunks or soaring home runs: just quiet, delicate and deliberate movements. Which also applies to the subtle art of gamesmanship. No in-your-face screaming &#8220;Bring It On!&#8221; chest-thumping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,18],"tags":[411,139],"class_list":["post-80230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-sports","tag-golf","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-kS2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82251,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80230\/revisions\/82251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}