Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONESCompetitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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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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 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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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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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