There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.