I played with [Dwight Eisenhower] on the day after I won the Masters at his request. We became everlasting friends. I was with him the day before he died at Walter Reed.

I was the first son and first child. When my sister came along, well, she was two years younger, and I had to go to the golf course because my mother couldn't handle all the action going on. So I came with father to the golf course since I was a year and a half old and I spent the day with him here, and it worked in naturally. And it was fun for me being with my father, and doing things that a kid did it was great.

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.

I had a system, and the system worked.

I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I will never forget. Did it ruin me or hurt my career? It taught me about life, how to take the bad with the good.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.