SPORTS QUOTE
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Don Adams was among a group of comedian-golfers who gambled on their games together.
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During a round one day, James Caan found himself arguing with Adams right from the get-go.
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"You're gonna give me four strokes aside," Adams said. Caan relucantly agreed. Then Adams said, "We're playing winter rules" (meaning that a ball on the fairway could be rolled over if it was muddy).
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On the first hole, Adams hit his ball into a barranca. When he went to move it, Caan asked him what he was doing. "We're playing winter rules," he said. Caan argued and they continued playing...
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On the last hole, Caan made a lovely shot onto the green. Adams, who had already lost several small bets to Caan, hit his second shot into a sand trap. Caan drove his cart up a hill to the clubhouse and started walking back down to the hole.
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"As I'm walking down the hill," he later recalled, "I see Adams moving his ball from the rough, through the elephant grass -- and he doesn't know I'm standing above him watching him -- and moves his ball all the way to the fringe of the green.
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I said, 'What the hell are you doing!'
He says, 'We're playing winter rules!' And he starts screaming and everybody's watching [from the clubhouse above]:
'You moved the ball on the fairway!'
'Yeah, on the fairway you can move it!' ...
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I run down, I literally pick him up, slam him on the ground, I get on his chest, I pry open his mouth and stuff a golf ball in there.
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So I'm sitting there and I'm looking at him and I just get hysterical [laughing]. I rolled off him and I'm dying, and Adams gets up, and he says,
'Remind me never to go bowling with you!'"
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