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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

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
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 one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Games Golf Play
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
Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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Golf People Simple
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
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
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
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
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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Golf Lonely People

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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