Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
BOBBY JONESIt is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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.
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