Arnold Haultain - The Mystery of Golf (1908)

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Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.

Arnold Haultain

Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

Arnold Haultain

Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.

Arnold Haultain

Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.

Arnold Haultain