| A ball at rest on a steep slope will tend to remain at rest until the moment it is addressed |
| A ball that looked stiff to the pin from back in the fairway will be ten feet from the hole when you get to the green |
| A ball will always come to rest halfway down a slope unless there is sand or water at the bottom |
| A ball will always seek the lowest point in which to lie so long as that point is not a perfectly round hole 4 1/2 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep |
| A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours |
| A ball you searched for for five minutes will be found in five seconds by a player in the first group behind you |
| Before you drop a ball, always decide whether you're going for accuracy or distance |
| If both balls are in the bunker, yours is in the footprint |
| If there is a ball in the fringe and a ball in the bunker, your ball is in the bunker |
| If you can't find your ball in the rough, but you do find another ball that you could easily play, it will be orange, yellow, or pink |
| The ball hit into the rough will always disappear between two identical shrubs |
| The ball will always travel farthest when hit in the wrong direction |
| The ball will never lip out of a pot bunker or burn the edge of a pond |
| The fewer balls you have, the more balls you lose; the more balls you have, the more balls you lose |
| The harder you try to keep your ball from landing in a particular place, the more certain it is to go there |
| The only sure way to find a drive sliced deep into the woods is to hit a provisional ball right down the middle of the fairway |
| The only sure way to get a hole-in-one is to be playing terrible golf all by yourself on a course you sneaked onto without paying on a day when you called in sick |
| The only sure way to hit a perfectly straight 250-yard drive is to decide not to go for it on a dogleg hole |
| The only time you can put the ball exactly where you want it is when you stick it in the ballwasher |
| You can draw the ball, you can fade the ball, but no one can straight the ball |
