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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.

Bobby Jones

Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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
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
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
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
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
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
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
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
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
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
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands

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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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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