GOLF (Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden)

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:04 PM -0500 2/25/05, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:04:02PM -0500, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>>  Greetings again from Casa de Campo, a golf resort in the Dominican Republic.
>>
>>  My sister just told me the origin of GOLF, from the above. She's
>>sure it's true. She read it on a Snapple bottletop!
>>
>>  Ugh. Does anyone know when this started? It doesn't seem to be on
>>Newspaperarchive.
>
>It's quite widespread. I hear it all the time.
>
>Jesse Sheidlower

Perhaps Michael Quinion covers that in his "POSH" book.  It's from
the same tradition of faux acronymy.

larry