I Learned Much More From Defeat Than

Play Ball! Means Something More Than Runs Or Pitches Thudding Into Gloves! Remember Through The Summer Suns This Is The Game Your Country Loves.

Because Golf Exposes The Flaws Of The Human Swing - A Basically Simple Maneuver - It Causes More Self-torture Than Any Game Short Of Russian Roulette.

You Wonder How They Do It And You Look To See The Knack You Watch The Foot In Action, Or The Shoulder Or The Back, But When You Spot The Answer Where The Higher Glamours Lurk You'll Find In Moving Higher Up The Laurel Covered Spire That Most Of It Is Practice And The Rest Of It Is Work.

Like Life, Golf Can Be Humbling. However, Little Good Comes From Brooding About Mistakes We've Made. The Next Shot, In Golf Or In Life, Is The Big One.

I Await The Hour When A Journalist Can Be Driven From The Press Room For Venal Practices, As A Minister Can Be Unfrocked, Or A Lawyer Disbarred.