Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.

Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person necessarily plays by feel, and a feel is almost impossible to describe.

Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.

I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

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

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