Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

There isn't a hole out there [Augusta] that can't be birdied if you just think. But there isn't one that can't be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

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 getting the ball in the hole.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course