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.

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

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.

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

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

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

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.