“Gary Player once said to me, “I always expect my ball to bounce out of the trees.”

“The notion of the “blind shot” was seen as somehow silly, poor design and something to be avoided by course architects at all costs, writes Mike Clayton in All the fun of the unfair.

“Don’t be fooled. Michael Bamberger has immense respect for his subject matter.

“Scientifically, what Moe (Norman) does is perfect,” Kuykendall says. “It’s what we call an ideal mechanically advantaged golf swing. It is a maximum force with least effort. It’s as perfect as a human being can do. The second-best is Lee Trevino’s.

“The consensus after that (major surgery) was that Tiger would never win another major. But you never say never.” That’s from Curtis Strange and one of many quotes reflecting on Tiger’s famous win.

“I like to feel as though there was a shaft that came right down through my head and down through the middle of my back,” Nicklaus says.

“A svelte 5’10” and 165 pounds, Kevin Kisner is an outlier in the PGA Tour’s era of brute force and explosive athleticism.

“Brooks Koepka is nothing if not direct. So when the topic of the Premier Golf League came up on Wednesday at the Honda Classic, he didn’t mince words,” writes Brian Wacker.

Brooks explains

"Whenever I talked to the great players like Ben Hogan and Jackie Burke about who they thought had the best swing ever, they always said it was Mickey Wright," says McLean, a Golf Digest 50 Best Teacher based at The Biltmore in Coral Gables, Fla.

Tiger Woods best short game tips is covered by Madeline MacClurg