I may not be perfect but I am perfect enough to be a very good rendition of me.
I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number.
Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.
On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
A good golf course is like good music. It does not necessarily appeal the first time one plays it.
When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.
Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
I take this continent with me into the grave.