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If I Go Out One Night, I Must Stay In The Next. It's The Same With My Golf. If I Play One Day, I Don't Play The Next. I Try To Pace Myself.

-Bruce Forsyth

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If I Go Out

Bruce Forsyth

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If I Go Out One Night, I Must Stay In The Next. It's The Same With My Golf. If I Play One Day, I Don't Play The Next. I Try To Pace Myself.

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