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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.

Bobby Jones

Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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
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
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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Golf Long Men
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
I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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Golf Lying Play
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
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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Eight Feet Golf
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
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
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
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
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
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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Balls Games Golf

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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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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