Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to r…

P. G. Wodehouse
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Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. ✨ P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. ✨ P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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