The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

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

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.