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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

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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Balls Games Golf
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important 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
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
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
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
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
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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Funny Golf Inspirational
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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 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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