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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.

Bobby Jones

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
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Adversary Human Playing
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
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
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
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
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
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
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
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
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind Play
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games

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