You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
BOBBY JONESThe object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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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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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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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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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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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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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody ever swung a club too slowly.
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