Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.
Source: In The Golfer's Book of Wisdom, ed. by Criswell Freeman, 1995.
-- Jack Nicklaus, (Jan 21 1940-____), US golfer; He was the dominating figure in world golf from the 1960s to the 1980s.