Too Much Ambition Is A Bad Thing

Competitive Golf Is Played Mainly On A Five-and-a-half-inch Course... The Space Between Your Ears.

Golf Is Assuredly A Mystifying Game. It Would Seem That If A Person Has Hit A Golf Ball Correctly A Thousand Times, He Should Be Able To Duplicate The Performance At Will. But Such Is Certainly Not The Case.

On The Golf Course, A Man May Be The Dogged Victim Of Inexorable Fate, Be Struck Down By An Appalling Stroke Of Tragedy, Become The Hero Of Unbelievable Melodrama, Or The Clown In A Side-splitting Comedy.

The Main Idea In Golf As In Life, I Suppose Is To Learn To Accept What Cannot Be Altered And To Keep On Doing One's Own Reasoned And Resolute Best Whether The Prospect Be Bleak Or Rosy.

Bobby Jonesconsidered Objectively, It Is Quite Obviously A Very Simple Matter To Propel A Ball With A Stick Across Some Specially Prepared Ground And Into A Hole Which Is Of Sufficient Size To Accomodate It By A Good Margin. Simple That Is, Provided There Is No Limit Upon The Time Or The Number Of Strokes Required.