The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONESIt 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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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