Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
The 'enemy' in golf is tension.
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.