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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.

Bobby Jones

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
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
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
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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
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
He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
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Appreciate Disappointment Golf
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
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
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
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
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
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

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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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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