Occupation: Golfer Birth: March 17, 1902 Death: December 18, 1971
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 ….
The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules..
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules..
Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it..
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 wh….
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..
Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand..
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about..
Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards..
The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long….
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself..
The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two..
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout..
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play..
Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either..
No putt is too short to be despised..
I never learned a thing from a tournament I won..
When I'm a little fatigued, sometimes I baby it. I don't try to do it. I'm not 100 percent. I probably won't be the rest of conference play. I just h….
The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swin….
Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball..