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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.

Bobby Jones

The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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
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 object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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 swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings 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
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Airplane Differences Golf
I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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Golf Lonely People
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
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
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
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games

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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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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