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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.

Bobby Jones

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
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
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
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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
I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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Games Golf Play
I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Funny Golf Inspirational
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
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
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
Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Golf Play Shade
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
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
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
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
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Clubs Golf Nobody

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