The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

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.

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 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.