Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course