If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
BOBBY JONESJack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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No one ever swung 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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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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