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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.

Bobby Jones

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
Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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Games Golf Hands
Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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Balls Games Golf
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
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
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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Golf Men might
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Funny Golf Inspirational
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
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
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
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
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
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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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Golf Struggle Years
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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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Eight Feet Golf
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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Games Golf People
If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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Golf Long Men

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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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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