It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.
The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course. . . the space between your ears.
The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.
Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.
I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.
Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go.