I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
You could be winning and feel like you're losing because the scorecard you're using is unfair.
Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.
Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course. "
