I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.
I loved curling and I loved the social aspect of it, the team. It's like if you had the same golf foursome for a long time, or if you're a bridge player, or a beer-league hockey team. You start to look forward to that time together and camaraderie, and having something that you do just for yourself.
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
The player may experiment about with his swing, his grip, his stance. It is only when he begins asking his caddie's advice that he is getting on dangerous ground.
When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.
When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.
The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
I thought I might spend the rest of my time on golf. But thinking about it now, I'm happy playing whenever I have some downtime in my busy schedule, and even if I had all the time I wanted to play, my score probably wouldn't be very good.
You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.
It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.
Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.
Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.
I've noticed the sound of the golf ball being hit by the golf club is different, and much more realistic, with the hearing aids. The sound with the hearing aids makes sense, and better represents what I know is happening to the golf ball. So you could say that the hearing aids help give me confidence regarding my golf game.
Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.
I love nothing more than being in the last group on Sunday at the Masters. It's the greatest thing in professional golf.
The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.