To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

I give the ball some sweet talk. I tell it that this isn't going to hurt a bit. I'm a friend and all I'm going to do is give it a nice little ride.