It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

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.

No putt is too short to be despised.

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

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.

On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.

Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.