The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant.
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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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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course… the space between your ears.
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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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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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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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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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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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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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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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