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

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

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