Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.

There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.

A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge you cannot bluff you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.

Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.