Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
BOBBY JONESGolf 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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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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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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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