I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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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 a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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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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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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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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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No one ever swung too slowly.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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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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