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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.

Bobby Jones

Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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
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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Fate Golf Hero
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Airplane Differences Golf
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
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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Games Golf Lying
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
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
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
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
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
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

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