The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
BOBBY JONESThe 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.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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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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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses 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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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