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

Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.

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

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.

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

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?

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.