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

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

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.

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

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

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.