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I never learned anything from a match that I won.

Bobby Jones

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
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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Eight Feet Golf
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
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings 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
If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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Advice Caddies Golf
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
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
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 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.
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Airplane Differences Golf
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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