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.
BOBBY JONESIf I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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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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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You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But such is certainly not the case.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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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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I never learned anything from a match that I won.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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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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The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.
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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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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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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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