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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.

Bobby Jones

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
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
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
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
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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
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 ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
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
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
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play

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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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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