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.
BOBBY JONESOne 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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