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No one ever swung too slowly.

Bobby Jones

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
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
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
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
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings 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
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
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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Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
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
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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

No one ever swung too slowly.

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