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.

The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.

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

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

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.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.