Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

The truth is, the first golf club I owned was an old left-handed, wooden-shafted, rib-faced mashie that a fellow gave me, and that's the club I was weaned on. During the mornings we caddies would bang the ball up and down the practice field until the members arrived and it was time to go to work. So I did all that formative practice left-handed. But I'm a natural right-hander.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

I see no reason that a golf course cannot be played in 18 birdies. Just because no one has ever done that doesn't mean it can't be done.

I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.