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.
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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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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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 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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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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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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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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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