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He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

Happiness is a long walk with a putter.

Swing hard in case you hit it.

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.

Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow. Then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

Always throw your clubs ahead of you. That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

Everybody has two swings-a beautiful practice swing and the choked-up one with with which they hit the ball. So it wouldn't do either of us a damned bit of good to look at your practice swing.

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

Golf is based on honesty, where else would you admit to a seven on a par three?

It's the most fun I've had with my clothes on.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.

The only shots you can be sure of are those you've had already.

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.