What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.
The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
'You know Bobby, when I was your age I'd drive the ball right over those trees at the corner.' Feeling challenged Mr. Cole hit a big driver right into those big trees. Snead then said 'Of course, when I was your age, those trees were only 10 feet high.'