A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.

Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.

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