“A golf ball is a golf ball, no matter how you putt it”

“Putt” and “put” is the source of the golf pun:
 
“A golf ball is a golf ball, no matter how you putt it.”
 
The joke has been cited in print since at least 1939. The line was extended by at least 1972: “A club may be a two-wood, a driver or a four iron, but a golf ball is a golf ball, no matter how you putt it.”
 
   
Newsappers.com
10 March 1939, The Signpost (Ogden, UT), pg. 3, col. 1:
You ain’t heard nothin’ yet if you haven’t heard these famous sayings:
(...)
Bill Havenor: “A golf ball is a gold ball no matter how you putt it.”
   
11 August 1939, Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald, “Lights and Shadows” by G. F. S., pg. 8, col. 1:
ODDS AND ENDS
A golf ball is a golf ball no matter how you putt it.
 
13 September 1940, Morning World-Herald (Omaha, NE), pg. 22, col. 2:
Just a Golf Ball
(U. S. S. Trenton Telescope)
Seaman Sam says—a golf ball is a golf ball, no matter how you putt it.
 
13 November 1940, San Diego (CA) Union, “Northeast Corner” by Nor’easter, pg. 2B, col. 6:
John Barclay made this remarkable remark:
 
“A golf ball is a golf ball, no matter how you putt it.”
 
26 March 1961, Bluefield (WV) Daily Telegraph, “Down Sports Trail Into The Press Box” with Stubby Currence, sec. 1, pg. 12, col. 4:
A golf ball is a golf ball—no matter how you putt it.
 
14 June 1972, Dauphin (Manitoba) Herald, “Tee Time” by Chuck Jackson, pg. 18, col. 2:
A club may be a two-wood, a driver or a four iron, but a golf ball is a golf ball, no matter how you putt it.
 
Google Books
October 1980, Boys’ Life, “Think & Grin,” pg. 82, col. 3:
Golf ball— A golf ball is a golf ball, no matter how you putt it. — Will Blackmon, Corpus Christi, Tex.
 
Google Books
20,000 Quips & Quotes
By Evan Esar
New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Books
1995, ©1968
Pg. 350:
A golf club may be a driver, a mashie or a putter, but a golf ball is a golf ball no matter how you putt it.
 
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/wonliners October 8, 2017
A golf ball is a golf ball no matter how you putt it.
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/athei-nerd January 5, 2022
A golf ball is still a golf ball…
no matter how you putt it.