The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
He told me just to keep the ball low.
I think the people I have met have meant a great deal to me, more than any shot I ever hit. I will always remember some golf shots, but others I would like to forget.
Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write.
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didnt raise a significant amount of money.
Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.
There's a saying that we use in golf: "I'd rather be lucky than good. " Of course, to be lucky and good is the ideal. If you study hard, you can get good. And if you get lucky and get the proper parts for people to be able to appreciate what you're doing. . . I'm sure there are many actors that are quite talented who have never been a success because they've never had the right opportunity and the right material. My mother used to think I had a guardian angel.
Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
Golf is a game of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.
Hitting a golf ball and putting have nothing in common. They're two different games. You work all your life to perfect a repeating swing that will get you to the greens, and then you have to try to do something that is totally unrelated. There shouldn't be any cups, just flag sticks. And then the man who hit the most fairways and greens and got closest to the pins would be the tournament winner.
Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.
Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.
The only shots you can be sure of are those you've had already.
