高爾夫球趣聞 (6)

高爾夫球趣聞 (6)

      

      

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

單獨地，熟並不生巧。我們如果有一位練習吹小喇叭的十歲兒子，也許就會明白這個道理。看你比賽，好玩，下去打是消遣，正經玩，它是高爾夫球。

Do not believe in miracles, rely on them.

不可相信出現奇蹟，但可以依賴它們。

If I have any genius at all, it must be a genius for play. I love to play--I love fishing and hunting and trapshooting and Ping-Pong and chess and pool and billiards and driving a motor-car, and at times I love golf, when I can get the shots going somewhere near right. It seems I love almost any pursuit except work.

如果我具備任何天才，那一定是玩的方面。我喜歡玩-包括釣魚、打獵、飛靶射擊、乒乓球、下棋、撞球與騎摩托車，而且我三不五時喜歡高爾夫球，當我揮桿出去，球飛向接近正確位置時。似乎我幾乎喜歡任何事，就是不喜歡工作。

【朋友，若你是pro，一定有同感，倘你仍是『幼歯的』，你會半信半疑，但當你也體會到這些高爾夫球『哲學』時，自己應也是老手了。】

12/06/2013

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圖/譯文: Justin Lai

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