“Golfer: I’d move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course” (joke)

A golf joke has been cited in print since at least 1960:
 
Golfer: I’d move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course.
Caddy: Try heaven; you’ve already moved most of the earth.
   
     
20 March 1960, The Sunday Sun (Baltimore, MD), pg. 16A, col. 3:
Gob Humor
(From the Indian, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba)
Golfer—I’d move heaven and earth to break 100.
Caddy—Try heaven awhile. You’ve moved enough earth.
     
5 May 1960, Greensboro (NC) Daily News, pg. 8, col. 7:
(Same item as above.—ed.)
 
16 August 1967, The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY), “Pepper…and Salt,” pg. 10, col. 1:
Pitfall
“I’d move heaven and earth to break 100,” said the golfer as he swung away in the sand trap.
 
“Try heaven, advised his partner. “You’ve already moved enough earth.
—Baptist Courier.
     
Google Books
Milton Berle’s Private Joke File:
Over 10,000 of His Best Gags, Anecdotes, and One-liners
By Milton Berle
Edited by Milt Rosen
New York, NY: Three Rivers Press
1989
Pg. 295:
The duffer swung, saying, “I’d move heaven and earth to break a hundred and twenty.”
 
His companion said, “Work on heaven. You’ve moved enough earth already!”
 
Google Books
The Golf Book of Lists:
Everything Golf, from the Greatest Courses and Most Challenging Greens, to the Greatest Players and the Best Equipment
By Mitch Kaplan
Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press
2001
Pg. 174:
Near the end of a particularly trying round of golf, during which the golfer had hit numerous fat shots, he said in frustration to his caddy, “I’d move heaven and earth to break a hundred on this course.”
 
“Try heaven,” said the caddy. “You’ve already moved most of the earth.”
   
Google Books
The Snark Handbook:
A Reference Guide to Verbal Sparring
By Lawrence Dorfman
New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing
2009
Pg. 135:
Golfer: I’d move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course.
Caddie: Try heaven, you’ve already moved most of the earth.
 
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Golfer: “I’d move heaven and earth to break 100 on this course.”
Caddy: “Try heaven; you’ve already moved most of the earth.”
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11:20 AM - 2 Jul 2018