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People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they're gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope.

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

President Clinton and President Obama played a round of golf over the weekend. President Clinton asked Obama what his handicap was, and Obama said, 'Joe Biden.'

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at the end of that golf game? Boehner will be crying over his score and Obama will be giving three explanations as to why his score is actually better than it appears.

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama’s handicap is Joe Biden.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.

Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to arrange that your guest opponent shall be deceived in to undertipping his caddie at the end of the morning round, so that the news gets round among the club employees that your opponent is a no good, and the boys will gang up against him.

Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

Ron Syriac, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.

Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.

Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.

Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.

Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.

Scott Medlock's portrait of 'the shot heard around the world' from the 1935 Masters is still being celebrated as a moment in Golf History. Imagine that!

Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I couldn't see straight. If it was golf, I wanted to beat everybody's brains out. If it was driving, I can get there faster'n you can. It's not anybody's fault, I guess. I was stubborn as hell. I had no direction.

Scottish golf is a more public game. It is more reasonably priced and they play faster. It isn't cart golf. The only reason resorts force you into carts is for the money. They are selling off the soul of the game for a few dollars.

Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.