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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.

Bobby Jones

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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Balls Games 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
Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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Games Golf Hands
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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
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
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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Golf Long Men
I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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Golf Men Team
He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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Appreciate Disappointment Golf
One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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Golf Struggle Years
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
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

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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