Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.

Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

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

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.