In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself. - Herbert Wind

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For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

Herbert Wind

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

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WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.

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Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

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Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for golf's fascination. . . Perhaps it is nothing more than the best game man has ever devised.

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According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.

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No golfer has completed his education until he has played and studied Royal Dornoch.

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