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 JONESGolf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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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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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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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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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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