The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

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.

Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.

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.

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.