Golf Is Like Eating Peanuts.

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 Road With Him, You Must Be Patient, Too.

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 Games. You Are Not Playing A Human Adversary; You A Playing A Game. You Are Playing Old Man Par.

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 Architect And I Was The Advisor And Consultant. No Man Learns To Design A Golf Course Simply By Playing Golf, No Matter How Well. But It Happened That Both Of Us Were Extravagant Admirers Of The Old Course At St Andrews And We Both Desired As Much As Possible To Simulate Seaside Conditions Insofar As The Differences In Turf And Terrain Would Allow.

Jack Nicklaus Is Playing An Entirely Different Game, And One Which I'm Not Even Familiar With.

One Reason Golf Is Such An Exasperating Game Is That A Thing We Learned Is So Easily Forgotten, And We Find Ourselves Struggling Year After Year With Faults We Had Discovered And Corrected Time And Again.