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

No putt is too short to be despised.

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.

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.

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.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.