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..

As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about gettin….

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard ….

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 ….

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul..

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with..

I will tell you privately it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse all the time, but don't fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lie….

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it..

The best exercise for golfers is golfing..

In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explai….

I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned no….

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it..

Nobody ever swung a club too slowly..

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe..

The 'enemy' in golf is tension..

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me..

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence..

Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors tha….

I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the archi….

On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelieva….