Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.

I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to be outside your control. What if Arnie's Army had bothered me? What id I'd said, "Oh geez, I'm paired with Palmer," I'd never had beaten him.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

If you want to hit it farther, hit it better.

That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.