You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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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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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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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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.
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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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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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