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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

Bobby Jones

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
BOBBY JONES

Clubs Golf Hands
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.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Lying Play
The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Long Men
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Men might
Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Play
You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
BOBBY JONES

Adversary Human Playing
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.
BOBBY JONES

Games Golf Men
Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Loses Winning
He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
BOBBY JONES

Appreciate Disappointment Golf
Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Kind Play
If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
BOBBY JONES

Eight Feet Golf
The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONES

Enemy Golf Tension
Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
BOBBY JONES

Different Familiar Games
You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
BOBBY JONES

Golf Swings Thinking
Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
BOBBY JONES

Clubs Golf Nobody
The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
BOBBY JONES

Airplane Differences Golf

As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

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