The Rewards Of Golf, And Of Life

The Secret Of Golf Is To Turn Three Shots Into Two.

I Had Held A Notion That I Could Make A Pretty Fair Appraisal Of The Worth Of An Opponent Simply By Speaking To Him On The First Tee And Taking A Good Measuring Look Into His Eyes.

It Is Nevertheless A Game Of Considerable Passion, Either Of The Explosive Type, Or That Which Burns Inwardly And Sears The Soul.

No-one Will Ever Have Golf Under His Thumb. No Round Ever Will Be So Good It Could Not Have Been Better. Perhaps This Is Why Golf Is The Greatest Of Games. You Are Not Playing A Human Adversary; You A Playing A Game. You Are Playing Old Man Par.

If I Had Ever Been Set Down In Any One Place And Told I Was To Play There, And Nowhere Else, For The Rest Of My Life, I Should Have Chosen The Old Course At St. Andrews.