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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?

Bobby Jones

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
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Games Golf Men
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
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
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
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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Games Golf Play
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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Golf Space Sports
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
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
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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
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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Golf Player Thinking
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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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Golf People Simple

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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