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• It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf. — Northern Irish essayist Robert Wilson Lynd
• It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. — Canadian author Bruce McCall, on the frequency with which golf proves vexing
• Golf is a game to teach you about the messages from within, about the subtle voices of the body-mind. And once you understand them you can more clearly see your hamartia, the ways in which your approach to the game reflects your entire life. Nowhere does a man go so naked. — American integral thought philosopher and author Michael Murphy , on the quality of golf as character-revealing

• • I screwed up. It's all on me. I know that...All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test. I just don't know what the test is yet. — Australian professional golfer Greg Norman, pictured, upon his forfeiting a six-stroke lead in the final round of the 1996 The Masters Tournament, in which he finished second to Englishman Nick Faldo, and on his recorded fifteen top-five finishes in the four major championship tournaments yet having won just two, the 1986 and 1993 The Open Championship
• The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better. — American professional golfer Nancy Lopez, on her propensity for success late in LPGA Tour golf tournaments, of which she won 48, more than any other player save six, over her career
• The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here. — Canadian professional golfer Mike Weir, on the nature of golf as an individual sport
• There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand. — American screenwriter Charles Rosin, on the idyllic quality of golf, in a 1990 episode of the American television dramatic comedy series Northern Exposure
• No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind. — American professional golfer Tom Watson
• Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. — English politician and author Sir Winston Churchill, on the nature of golf as a difficult precision sport
• I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity. — American professional golfer Jack Nicklaus, conceding a putt to Briton Tony Jacklin at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, at the 1969 Ryder Cup Matches, and thereby permitting the British team to secure a 16-16 draw

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