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.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

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