Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
BOBBY JONESJack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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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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