The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Addressing 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.
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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 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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Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball where it lies.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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