“King was impish and thoughtful, erudite and profane, competitive and compassionate. He was just a very complex, very fun man. And I miss him terribly.”

“Ironically, these years where nothing could go ‘straight and narrow’ helped me focus so that now, with a master golfer’s attention, I can drive my camera right down the center of the fairway.”

“If our team was a body, it needed a heart. And he had enough for everybody.”

“I read all the Collins poetry I could find, because he had not only saved English 101 for me, but he had also saved me as a golfing professor.”

Sea, land and sky meet at Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand.

“A peek into their work reveals that, despite the heavy machinery, it’s more art than science.”

“A few holes can be shifted around, but what happens when there is nowhere else to retreat to?”

“Some husbands chase younger and less-consequential women; I had allowed myself to be seduced by the older, wilier and less-forgiving mistress that is golf.”