It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
BOBBY JONESNobody ever swung a club too slowly.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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