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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.

Bobby Jones

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.
BOBBY JONES

Appreciate Disappointment Golf
On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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Fate Golf Hero
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
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
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
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
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
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
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
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
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

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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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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