If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!
Don't take your bad shots home with you.
Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.
It isn't the hours that you put in at practice that count. It's the way you spend those minutes.
You build a golf game like you build a wall, one brick at a time.
The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has no business howling in anguish when he puts his first two shots in the woods, then tops a 3-iron shot into the pond.