I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.
I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.
Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked. . not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.
After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.
I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.
On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention with golf is like selling Shakespeare in the neighbourhood saloon.
It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.
Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.
Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.
I would just not be surprised if, 10 years from now, there is a Trump golf course at the Bay of Pigs. Just mark my words.
My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years.
One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.
It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.