It's a gentleman's game based on honesty. Still, we require that someone see the golfer hit the shot.

the overall system is almost incompatible with honesty.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

I loved their honesty, their humility and their graciousness. They were fiercely loyal, especially to me. Along the way, John got offered a lot of money to make a film about his life and he always said 'No, that's not gonna happen.' He knew I'd protect the story, make the film he wanted made. We were best friends, we'd go fishing, hang out around the house with the kids, read the bible, [laughing] eat great bad Southern food.

It was a downhill lie with a 30-mile-per-hour tailwind in high altitude on a hard fairway. I believe it to be true.