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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

It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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Games Golf Passion
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
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
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
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports 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
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
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
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Games Golf Men
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
One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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Golf Struggle Years
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

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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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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