Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.

A GREAT deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world. The people who go on playing it, year in and year out, with unquenchable hope and enthusiasm, constitute the game's mainstay, for their zeal is complete, and zeal that remains unabated in the face of long-sustained adversity is the most powerful constituent in the whole fabric of a prosperous pastime.

I followed Hogan because I'd been following him just about all my life. He'd been in a terrible car accident, and first they said he wouldn't live, and then they said he wouldn't walk, and then they said he wouldn't play golf again. He won three National Opens and a British Open after they said that.