Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

A compact joke about golf’s blend of etiquette, frustration, and self-deception. “Fore” evokes the sport’s ritual politeness even when a shot goes astray, while “shoot six, and write down five” points to the temptation to shave strokes off one’s score—an exaggeration that satirizes casual dishonesty and the ego’s need to appear competent. The humor works because golf is self-scored and socially policed: players are expected to be honorable, yet the game’s difficulty invites rationalizations. Attributed to Paul Harvey, the line fits the tradition of American sports one-liners that use golf as a stand-in for human fallibility.