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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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Bobby Jones
Age: 69 †
Born: 1902
Born: March 17
Died: 1971
Died: December 18
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