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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

Bobby Jones

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
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 ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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
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
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
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
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
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
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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
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
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

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