Delightful funny comment about playing golf.

circa 1800   - Sailor officer, when asked have you played the game?

Reply, 'I would rather be whipped around the fleet and marched barefoot back to London'.

'It is a game perfectly contrived to induce the greatest possible frustration and test one's mastery of choler to the utmost.  I have seen men of the mildest character dash a play-club to splinters on a tree in a passion that would befit an especially violent lunatic.  Never take up this cursed game unless you have the disposition of a saint, the patience of a nun'   

Does this sound familiar for  those who have tried to play this game?
I roared with laughter as I read this !!!