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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
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
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
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
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf Kind 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
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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
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
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
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 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

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