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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.

Bobby Jones

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
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
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Different Familiar Games
No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf Slowly Swung
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
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
Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Ambition Golf Much Too
The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Beats Golf Object
Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Fighting Muscles Strive
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf Swings Thinking
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
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
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Golf Loses Winning
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
The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Airplane Differences Golf
Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Golf Littles Play
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
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
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
Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Clubs Golf Hands
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
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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Fate Golf Hero
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Enemy Golf Tension
Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Inspirational Sports Thinking
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
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

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