"Why do people play golf?" Sean Connery was once asked, and he gave a brilliant answer. "If you play golf, you can’t think, honestly, or do anything else while you’re playing. "I think it’s the most revealing game. I don’t know if it’s a game. It’s something other than a game. I couldn’t define it. "But it’s obsessive and revealing and a very healthy balancing act, I think. It certainly is for me, and also it’s one of the few games in the world that’s really still got dignity as a game. "It’s endless, and as Jack Nicklaus says, it’s an unfair game and you have to accept it. It’s like life in that way. "It’s also a game that you can cheat it. It’s the easiest game in the world to cheat at. The only one that suffers is you, because you know. And you can’t unknow."