It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.
Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.
It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.
Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.
It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.