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.

Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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.

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

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

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.