Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.

No one remembers who came in second.

It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.

Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.