Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
BOBBY JONESCompetitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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