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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

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
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
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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Asses Bad Boys Golf Shots Silly
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
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
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
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
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 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 ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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

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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