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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.

Bobby Jones

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
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
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
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
Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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Golf Space Sports
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 never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Funny Golf Inspirational
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
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
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive

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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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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