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.

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

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.

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