Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.