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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

Bobby Jones

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
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 ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
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
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
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
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
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
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
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
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports 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
I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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Golf Lonely People
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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 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
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
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 have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

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