Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
BOBBY JONESDoesn’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?
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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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.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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