In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
BOBBY JONESI 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.
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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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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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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 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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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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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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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