Golf Central

One of the Christmas pressies your humble IGWT deputy editor got this year was a collection of pithy golf quotations and maxims called The Hole Is More Than The Sum Of The Putts, compiled by Colin Jarman.

A quick flip through these 432 fascinating pages unearthed this gem of a medical opinion:

"Golf increases the blood pressure, ruins the disposition, spoils the digestion, induces neurasthenia, hurts the eyes, calluses the hands, ties kinks in the nervous system, debauches the morals, drives men to drink or homicide, breaks up the family, turns the ductless glands into internal warts, corrodes the pneumogastric nerve, breaks off the edges of the vertebrae, induces spinal meningitis and progressive medacity, and starts angina pectoris."

Crikey! We think:
a) Doctors like golf too much, generally. Try visiting your NHS GP on a nice sunny afternoon ...
b) Wonder what Doctor Lamb would make of Trevor Immelman's current condition. And it seems what Trevor needs most is more golf, and fewer growths on his diaphragm and intestinal parasites!