GOLF (Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

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