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

No one ever swung too slowly.

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.

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.

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

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