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.

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.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

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.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.