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

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.

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

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 a game that is played on a five-inch course

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.