Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

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

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.

I am the servant of my score.

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

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.