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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

Bobby Jones

Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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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Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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Golf Holes Thinking
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
Golf 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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Games Golf People
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
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
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
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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Basketball Golf Sports
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
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
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
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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Golf Long Men
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
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

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

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