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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.

Bobby Jones

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
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
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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Asses Bad Boys Golf Shots Silly
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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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
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
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
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
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
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
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
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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 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
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
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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Basketball Golf Sports
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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Advice Caddies Golf
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
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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Golf Lying Play
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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Balls Hurt Thinking
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension

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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