If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. – Horace G. Hutchinson (1859-1932)

Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable. – A.P. Herbert, Misleading Cases, 1935

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. – Jack Nicklaus, why he tees his ball high