Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.
Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we’ve made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent’s.
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.