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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

Bobby Jones

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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Games Golf People
As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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Balls Hurt Thinking
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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Golf Men might
I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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Games Golf Play
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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Games Golf Passion
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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Eight Feet Golf
Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Games Golf Play
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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Golf Lonely People
You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Adversary Human Playing
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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Golf Space Sports
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
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Golf Player Thinking
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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Golf Holes Thinking

As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

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