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.
BOBBY JONESCompetitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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.
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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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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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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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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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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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