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.
BOBBY JONESIn golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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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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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.
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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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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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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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