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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.

Bobby Jones

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
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
Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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Games Golf Hands
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
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
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
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.
BOBBY JONES

Airplane Differences Golf
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind 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 ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
BOBBY JONES

Eight Feet Golf
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Play Shade

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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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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