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.

What abandoned course is that?

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.

I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.