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Sam Snead
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 2002
Died: May 23
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What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.
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Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.
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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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Forget your opponents always play against par.
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First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.
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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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'You know Bobby, when I was your age I'd drive the ball right over those trees at the corner.' Feeling challenged Mr. Cole hit a big driver right into those big trees. Snead then said 'Of course, when I was your age, those trees were only 10 feet high.'
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I've said a thousand times, you can't go into a shop and buy a good golf game.
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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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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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Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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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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Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.
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There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.
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The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.
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When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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