Amateur: ``How do you get so much backspin?''

Pro: ``Before I answer that, tell me, how far do you hit a 5 iron?''

From the classified ad section of the Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram:

LOST: GOLFING HUSBAND AND DOG - last seen at Ratliff Ranch Golf Links. Reward for dog.

A new inmate in a prison was at the meal table for the first time. One of the inmates said, ``Seventeen'', and everyone laughed. Another said, ``Forty-three,'' and everyone laughed. Another said, ``Five,'' and got huge gales of laughter.

A guy gets a call from the coroner, who wants to talk about his wife's recent death. ``We were on the third hole'' the widower relates.