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

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

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.

As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

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