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You have to watch your handicap. My son Steve says, Never make a putt you don't have to.
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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I understand golf is a game, and I've never treated it as anything else. Family is something that's very special, and so they all contributed to the room. They all contributed to what my life was, my career was.
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