Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

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.

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.

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

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let's not talk about this, ever again.

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.