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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.

Bobby Jones

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
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
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
I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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Games Golf Play
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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Golf Men Team
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
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
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
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Golf Player Thinking
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
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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Golf Holes Thinking
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
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
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
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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
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
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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Games Golf People
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
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking

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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