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

No putt is too short to be despised.

I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.

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.

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

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.