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Quotables
Match the quote with the person who said it.
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1. "McDonald's."
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A. Alanis Morissette, in Right Through You, a cut on the Grammy-winning CD Jagged Little Pill.
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2. "Did you know that Kennedy and Lincoln had the same handicap?"
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B. Tennis player Todd Martin, to reporters after the U.S. had swept Mexico in the Davis Cup.
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3. "It's longer and straighter"
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C. Brad Faxon, paired with Tiger Woods in the first round of the Tour Championship, on their large gallery.
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4. "I've never had that many people follow me around on a Thursday. They must've heard about my reputation."
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D. Scott Hoch, on St. Andrews.
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5. "I refuse to play equipment that's inferior to what I've been using for years. If I was a big enough whore, I'd go ahead and do it. But I choose not to."
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E. Patrick Burke, after spectators at the Doral-Ryder Open asked how his father, a popular club pro in New Jersey who had died four months earlier, was doing.
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6. "Not too good."
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F. Homer Simpson.
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7. "You took me for a joke. You took me for a child. You took a long hard look at my ass and then played golf for a while."
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G. Nick Faldo, describing how he triple-bogeyed the 8th hole at the PGA.
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8. "That shot was a half-shank from the pike position."
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H. Japan's Hidemichi Tanaka, when asked if he knew any English words.
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9. "We're not going to fight, are we?"
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I. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, on his intention to meet Jack Nicklaus at the U.S. Open.
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10. "If you guys would stop asking questions, I could get out on the golf course."
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J. Bill Murray, discussing Hurricane Bertha with David Letterman.
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11. "I'm going to walk up to him and tell him, 'If you don't win, I'm here.' "
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K. Mike Hill, on why he uses irons made in the '70s and a 40-year-old putter.
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12. "You've just got to not concentrate."
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L. Will Smith's character on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, when asked how he keeps missing one-foot putts.
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13. "It's the worst piece of mess I've ever seen. I think they had some sheep and goats there that died, and they just covered them over."
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M. Jack Nicklaus, when he met Muhammad Ali at the PGA.
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Answers: 1-H. 2-F. 3-J. 4-C. 5-K. 6-E. 7-A. 8-G. 9-M. 10-B. 11-I. 12-L. 13-D.
Cool Quotient/Number of correct answers: 10-13 Longer than Tiger Woods. 5-9 Longer than Earl Woods. 0-4 Shorter than Rosemary Woods.
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Need more proof that golf is cool? Just look around. Bill Clinton plays golf; Bob Dole doesn't. Who wins the election? A coincidence? We think not. Michael Jordan plays golf and wins the NBA championship. Pop singer Alanis Morissette includes golf in the lyrics of a song on her Jagged Little Pill CD and goes home with all the Grammys, as avid hackers Hootie and the Blowfish had done the year before.
Golf is so over-the-top cool that hard-rock icon Alice Cooper appears in Callaway commercials. "Ten years ago, if people had found out that I played golf, I would've lost every one of my fans," Cooper says. "In every rock band I know now, guys with long hair and tattoos play golf. It's not an old man's game or un-cool anymore. And what's more rebellious—drinking all day or going to where the enemy lives and beating him?"
Hollywood has bought the concept. Two movies featuring the game were released in '96, Happy Gilmore and Tin Cup. Even the Doh-boy, dimwitted Homer Simpson, teed it up this year. In an episode of The Simpsons in which the family considers joining a country club, Homer gets a lesson from Tom Kite, who calls Homer a natural.
So was John F. Kennedy, we discovered this year while reading Presidential Lies, although JFK felt his knack for golf was a political liability, so he kept it under wraps. How times have changed. Last spring Arnold Schwarzenegger paid $772,500 for Kennedy's old clubs. How cool is that? Almost as cool as Tiger Woods, whose captivating quest pumped us up as the season wound down.
Golf was too cool in 1996. Were you? Check your Cool Quotient, and knowledge of the people, places and events that made news this year, by taking the following tests.
Multiple Choice
Select the correct answer to the following questions.
1. On Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will Smith's character got a putting lesson from
a. Tiger Woods.
b. Lee Trevino.
c. Scott Hoch.
d. Regis Philbin.
2. Jay Haas and Fred Couples appeared in a Hootie and the Blowfish music video that one magazine named the worst of the year. The name of the song was