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If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.
Jack Nicklaus
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Jack Nicklaus
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 21
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I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to be outside your control. What if Arnie's Army had bothered me? What id I'd said, Oh geez, I'm paired with Palmer, I'd never had beaten him.
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That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.
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Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.
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I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.
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