Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

I never learned a thing from a tournament I won.

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.

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