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.

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

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.

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.