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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

Bobby Jones

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
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
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
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
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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Airplane Differences Golf
I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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Golf Lying Play
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
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
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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Games Golf Play
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

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