A white golf ball sits inside a small brass birdcage on grass, with a silver golf club leaning beside it.

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Woodrow Wilson

Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose.

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This joke pokes fun at golf by describing it as a pointless struggle: chasing a tiny, hard-to-control ball toward a hole that's oddly difficult to find, using tools that seem poorly suited for the job. The exaggerated futility captures the game's frustrating, almost comic inefficiency from an outsider's amused view.

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