Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

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.

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

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

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.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.