Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more elementary the instruction. It can do one of two things: help you more or hurt you less. Both are good compared to the alternative.

I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.

Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.