Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
BOBBY JONESDoesn’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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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