Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.