All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.

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.

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.

Every father who ever lived has a dream for his son.