The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.
Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.
If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!
The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.
It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.