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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

Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
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
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
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 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
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
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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports 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

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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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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