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• Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
• Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
• You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach…
• Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.
• Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk.
• There is no type of miracle that can't happen at least once in golf.
• There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.
• Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
• Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
• Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day?…
• There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there…
• Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game…

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