Who Said “golf Is a Good Walk Spoiled”?

“Golf is a good walk spoiled” is a quote by famous writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens under the pen name Mark Twain. Twain is known best for his famous works “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

The first of Twain’s 28 books, “The Innocents Abroad,” was published in 1869. Known as a humorist, he also authored numerous letters, sketches and short stories until his death in 1910. A few other famous Twain quotes include, “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it begins to rain,” “Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen” and “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”