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

Bobby Jones

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Funny Golf Inspirational
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
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
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
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
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
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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
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
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
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
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

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