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

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.

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.

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

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.