Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
BOBBY JONESThe object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games.
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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 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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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No one ever swung too slowly.
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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