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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

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
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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
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 best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
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
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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Golf Men Team
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
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
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
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
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
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
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
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
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
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
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Funny Golf Inspirational
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
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
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 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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