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.
BOBBY JONESToo much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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