Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
BOBBY JONESI can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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Doesn’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?
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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