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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.

Bobby Jones

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
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
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
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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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Golf Order Winning
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
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
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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Golf People Simple
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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
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
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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Golf Lying Play

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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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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