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.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

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

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

Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

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