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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

Sam Snead

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Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
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Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.
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Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.
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You have more potential than you think.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.
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No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
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To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
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Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.
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Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.
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That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.
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I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.
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You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.
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Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
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Those who go along get along.
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I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.
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Forget your opponents always play against par.
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I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.
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Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.
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Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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