Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
BOBBY JONESAddressing 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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.
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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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