"Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough."
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"But there is a difference between playing well and hitting the ball well. Hitting the ball well is about thirty percent of it. The rest is being comfortable with the different situations on the course."
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"A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes."
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"The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story."
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"It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through."
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"Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours."
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"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course."
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"Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour."
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"So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain." Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: "Every putt makes someone happy.")"
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"All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?"
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"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose."
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"Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries."
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"Having played the Old Course many times since my first visit in 1981, I am now of the opinion it is one of the best and most beautiful tests of links golf anywhere in the world."
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"The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did."
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"I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it."
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"They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that."
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"My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual."
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"The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom."
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"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."
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"Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course."
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