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.

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.

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

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.

I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.

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

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.