Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONESGolf 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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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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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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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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