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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.

Bobby Jones

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
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
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
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
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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
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
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
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
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
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
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
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
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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 one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Games Golf Play
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
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
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
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung

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