Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.