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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.

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
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
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
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
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
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
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
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
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
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
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
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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
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
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too

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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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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