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.
BOBBY JONESI 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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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 ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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