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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.

Bobby Jones

The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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Golf Long Men
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 said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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Games Golf People
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
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
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf Important Play
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 like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
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
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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
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
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
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
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
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 emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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Games Golf Passion
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
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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