How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

I didn't push any of my kids into golf, and they played golf because they wanted to.

I love the golf courses because it brought the best out of me. It made me prepare, made me work at it, made me do the things I needed to do to be better, and that's what I loved about USGA events. If you couldn't handle it, then you got beat, and that's OK.

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.