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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Bobby Jones

You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
BOBBY JONES

Adversary Human Playing
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Player Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
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
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
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
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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 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
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

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

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