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I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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
If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Chosen Golf Nowhere Place
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports 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
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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 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
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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
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
The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Exercise Golf Golfers
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
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
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
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
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
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

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

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