First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.

I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father.

I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.

If you are really serious about playing golf and playing good golf, stick to the basic fundamentals. Sure, there's going to be a little change here and a change there, but you don't want to make them. You want to stick to the things that you started with, and you learned, and you know how to apply them.

There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that.

You can describe my round as having moments of ecstasy and stark raving terror. I looked like I knew what I was doing at times and at other times I looked like a twenty handicap player.