Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

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.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.