Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

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

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.