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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Bobby Jones

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
If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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Advice Caddies Golf
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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Games Golf Lying
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
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?
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Asses Bad Boys Golf Shots Silly
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
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
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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Basketball Golf Sports
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
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
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
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
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

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