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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.

Bobby Jones

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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
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
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
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
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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
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
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
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
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
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
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

Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.

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