Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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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A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.
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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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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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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.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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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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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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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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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