I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

I was horrified. Absolutely heart sick. All I could think of was that after 23 years together, I'd lost my faithful ally. I couldn't sleep, couldn't get the loss out of my mind. It was like discovering that someone in my family had died.

I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.

I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now

A good golf course makes you want to play so badly that you hardly have the time to change your shoes.

I don't have any big secret about putting. Just hit at it. It's either going to miss or go in.