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

Bobby Jones

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
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
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
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
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
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
On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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Fate Golf Hero
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
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 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
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
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 object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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Golf Men might

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