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Quotes from The Mystery of Golf — Arnold Haultain

1857–1941 Canada

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Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

There are more "Don't's" in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

Golf is more exacting than a a steeple-chase or the half-mile.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch; but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

Most of the difficulties in golf are mental, not physical; are subjective, not objective; are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

It is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological, and moral fight with yourself; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop-order; you cannot jilt. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is just this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arnold Haultain (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.