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

Bobby Jones

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
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
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
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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
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
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

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

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